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Archives service center.

The Archives Service Center (ASC) is a repository for manuscript and record collections that document the history of Pittsburgh and the Western Pennsylvania region, including the history of Pitt.

ASC is located on the second floor of the Library Resource Facility in Pittsburgh’s Point Breeze neighborhood, approximately three miles from the Oakland campus. Shuttle service is available between ASC and Hillman Library, and free parking is provided to researchers.

ASC’s collections fall into two main categories: the Archives of Industrial Society , comprising historical records important for the study of the social, political, labor, and ethic histories of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania during the 19th and 20th centuries; and the University Archives , documenting Pitt history. ASC also maintains the papers of former Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh.

Benedum Hall

Benedum Hall is in the final stages of a comprehensive renovation designed to upgrade the building’s outdated utility infrastructure and renovate programmatic areas to provide state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities for the Swanson School of Engineering.  In addition to improving the functionality and appearance of the building, the renovation has incorporated many sustainable features to reduce the building’s impact on the environment.  The building’s windows were replaced with energy efficient reflective windows, and many energy and water-saving features were incorporated.  

The project also included the University’s first green vegetative roof, and more than 75 percent of the project’s construction and demolition waste was recycled. 

Phase I of the project earned LEED Gold certification, 2011.  The project’s second phase is also pursuing LEED certification. 

Schenley Plaza

The University assisted the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy with construction management services for the revitalization of Schenley Plaza, located across Fifth Avenue from the Cathedral of Learning. Originally designed as a grand entrance to Schenley Park, the plaza was converted to a surface parking lot in 1949—a move that Terence Smith, Pitt's Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, described in 2002 as "an absolute aesthetic disaster" and akin to "filling the Grand Canyon with a shopping mall."

In the 1990s, the Parks Conservancy began a 10-year planning process to restore the plaza to its former glory. The revitalization was completed in 2006, providing Pitt and the surrounding community with an acre of new green space complete with outdoor movable seating, a tented area for shade, ornamental gardens, food kiosks, free wireless service, and a Victorian-style carousel.  A full service restaurant, The Porch, is a recent addition.   

The renovation project received the Silver Award for Environmentally Sustainable Projects from the International Awards for Livable Communities (2009) and the plaza itself earned a  “Best Place to Hang Out” designation from The Pitt News (2008).

Biomedical Science Tower 3

Biomedical Science Tower 3 opened in 2005. Within the 10-story, 330,000-square-foot facility, world-class scientists from an array of disciplines pool their expertise, extend the reach of their individual resources, and participate in discoveries that advance scientific understanding. The tower was engineered to facilitate coordinated research in the areas of neurosciences, vaccine development, drug discovery, regenerative medicine and biomedical devices, and basic science disciplines.

A Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark, Allen Hall houses Pitt’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. Since the days of founding chair Samuel Langley, who pioneered heavier-than-air flight, the department has boasted a proud history of innovative research and teaching. During the 1990s, for example, current department chair David Turnshek discovered the farthest known galaxy from Earth.

The Greek Revival-style Allen Hall was dedicated in 1915. Its facade includes a plaque honoring Polish scientist Marie Curie, who conducted research at Pitt and upon whom the University conferred an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1921. The plaque commemorates the 100th anniversary in 1967 of Curie’s birth; it was unveiled by fellow Pole Karol Wojtyla, then the Archbishop of Krakow, who in 1978 became Pope John Paul II.

Litchfield Towers-Rooms

Litchfield Towers A and B offer double rooms while Litchfield Tower C includes only single rooms. The original A, B, and C names were simply shorthand abbreviations used by the Towers’ designers. Though officially renamed the “Litchfield Towers” in 1971 after Pitt’s 12th chancellor, Edward H. Litchfield (1914-1968), the A, B, and C names have stuck ever since. The design of the towers has earned several architectural awards.

Babcock Room

The Babcock Room, located on the 40th floor of the Cathedral of Learning, is a unique location for meetings featuring gorgeous views of Oakland and beyond. The room was originally used by the Board of Trustees, but they eventually outgrew the space and today it is used for special meetings and gatherings. Perched outside these windows is the nest of the pair of peregrine falcons that call the Cathedral home.

Mark A. Nordenberg Hall

The University’s newest residence hall, opened in fall 2013, is named for Pitt's 17th chancellor, Mark A. Nordenberg, to acknowledge his pivotal role in transforming Pitt. 

The 11-story building houses approximately 560 freshmen in double and triple rooms. The building also includes wellness center space for student health services and the counseling center.

Nordenberg Hall is located in the heart of the Pittsburgh campus, along Fifth Avenue. It is expected to achieve a LEED silver certification for sustainable construction.

Allen L. Cook Spring Creek Preserve, Wyoming

Thanks to a generous donation of land by rancher Allen Cook, the University Honors College (UHC) maintains stewardship of the Allen L. Cook Spring Creek Preserve, which serves as a 6000-acre research lab that's rich in dinosaur fossils, Native American archaeology spanning 9,000 years, indigenous prairie ecology, and a section of the original grade of the 1869 transcontinental railroad.

UHC’s Wyoming Field Studies Program introduces students to the fundamental practices of paleontology, ecology, and archaeology, with a strong emphasis on field techniques. Students get to help unlock a natural time capsule teeming with remnants of life dating back 150 million years.

Undergraduate Chemistry Labs

The Department of Chemistry’s undergraduate labs within the Chevron Science Center provide the research space and quality education to enable students to go on to positions in industry, professional schools, and graduate chemistry programs at top institutions.

The labs provide combined recitation/lab areas where lab benches occupy peripheral wall space and a flexible arrangement of tables and seating is located in the center of each room. This central core is separated from lab experiments by glass partitions, providing a safety barrier and excellent sightlines between students and lab instructors.

Lab workspace includes open, analytical labs as well as air-capture units for synthetic and reactive chemistry activities. Each student lab station is equipped with a laptop PC interfaced with temperature, pH, conductivity, and visible absorption spectrometers (Vernier electronic probes). As newer technologies become available, the labs will include electronic notebooks offering video clips, pre-lab material, and, ultimately, the ability to submit lab reports electronically.

Translational Medicine

At the University of Pittsburgh, important laboratory work to bring basic research to hospital bedsides occurs in many labs across the schools of the health sciences, including this one, where human organs are analyzed to improve transplantation success.

Structural Biology

The Department of Structural Biology, part of Pitt’s School of Medicine, currently has 12 faculty members working in the fields of Cryo EM, NMR, X-ray crystallography, and biochemistry. The department is located in Biomedical Science Tower 3.

An advanced degree is offered through the molecular biophysics and structural biology graduate program, which brings faculty members from Pitt’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and School of Medicine together with faculty members of various Carnegie Mellon University departments.

Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology

The Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology (PLE) is a year-round facility that is part of Pitt's Department of Biological Sciences in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. The lab is located in Northwestern Pennsylvania on the shores Pymatuning Lake in Mercer County.

PLE offers academic and outreach courses to students and visitors alike, and facilitates cutting-edge research in ecology, evolution, and the environment.

Petersen Events Center Rain Garden

Pitt’s first rain garden, located on the lawn of the Petersen Events Center, soaks up excess rainwater and naturally infiltrates it into the soil. The garden was designed and built in 2011 by student members of Engineers for a Sustainable World, with support from the University’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.

Oakwood Apartments

The Oakwood Apartments, located between Oakland Avenue and Atwood Street a few blocks from the center of campus, include 20 furnished units housing 40 students in single and double bedrooms.

Neuromuscular Research Laboratory

The Neuromuscular Research Laboratory (NMRL) is the applied research facility of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition, located on Pittsburgh's South Side.

Research is conducted in the areas related to joint injury where the objective has been to study profiles of an individual's function by evaluating both the sensory and motor characteristics specific to musculoskeletal injury and pathology. Deficiencies in body mechanics and muscle function are used to develop programs to improve performance and minimize potential for injury.

The laboratory houses three separate motion analysis systems for specific task and sport analyses with defined areas for sports physiology, proprioception, postural stability, and strength assessments.

Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization Facility

The Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization Facility (NFCF) is supported by the integrated, multidisciplinary organization, the Gertrude E. and John M. Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering.

The NFCF is a 4,000-ft cleanroom facility located in the sub-basement of Benedum Hall. The facility houses state-of-the-art equipment with core nano-level fabrication/analysis capability. Several features make the capabilities of NFCF unique, including five different types of lithography (Optical, EBL, Dual Beam, DipPen, and Imprint), a field-emission microprobe (EPMA), and a transmission electron microscope (TEM).

NFCF is open for University use; this interdisciplinary facility acts as a catalyst for further collaborations among various Pitt schools. 

McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine is a facility of both the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC that serves as a single base of operations for leading scientists and clinical faculty working in the areas of tissue engineering, cellular therapies, and artificial and biohybrid organ devices.

The institute is located in the Pittsburgh Technology Center, an office park in South Oakland situated on the former site of an LTV Steel mill. This office park is a hub of advanced academic and corporate technology research and stands as an example of one of the best brownfield redevelopment projects in the country.

McGowan Institute Laboratory Building

In 2005, the McGowan Institute Laboratory Building on Carson Street in the South Side became the first lab building in Pennsylvania to receive the gold LEED rating for sustainable design and construction. The building houses office and laboratory space for more than 100 scientists, researchers, and staff developing such cutting-edge medical devices as artificial hearts and lungs.

Its many green features include reuse of a former industrial brownfield, an underground rainwater collection system used for toilet flushing and drip irrigation, state-of-the-art heat recovery systems to reduce energy use and increase the efficiency of outside air spaces, and use of a large volume of locally manufactured or fabricated materials.

LEED Gold certification, 2005.

Human Engineering Research Laboratories

Located in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square business park, about three miles east of Oakland in the neighboorhood of East Liberty, the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) is dedicated to improving the mobility and function of people with disabilities through advanced engineering in clinical research and medical rehabilitation. 

Gardner Steel Conference Center

The Gardner Steel Conference Center houses the University’s Innovation Institute and Academic Resource Center (ARC).

The Innovation Institute serves as the hub for innovation commercialization and student entrepreneurship activities at Pitt. Its mission is to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across the University and throughout Western Pennsylvania.

ARC helps students to achieve their highest academic potential. It provides advising, consultations, tutoring, study-skills workshops, academic support services, access to cultural and leadership activities, and other programs and services. ARC is part of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, but is open to all undergraduates on the Pittsburgh campus.

The building, dedicated in 1912 and originally home to a German-American social and athletic association, is named after Gardner Steel, a successful oil investor who graduated from Pitt in 1891 and once held the University record in the 100-yard dash. He left the bulk of his estate to Pitt.

Falk School Green Roof

Fanny Edel Falk Elementary is a K-8 tuition-based campus laboratory school affiliated with Pitt’s School of Education. As part of the school’s green design renovation, a green roof was installed to collect and recycle rainfall, lessening the amount of storm water draining into the city’s sewer system.

Eberly Hall

Eberly Hall houses Pitt’s Center for Simulation and Modeling, an interdisciplinary unit that supports and facilitates computational-based research across the University in such areas as energy and sustainability, nanoscience and materials engineering, medicine and biology, and economics and the social sciences.

Dedicated in 1921, Eberly Hall was designed by architect Benno Janssen, who also designed such Oakland neighborhood landmarks as the Pittsburgh Athletic Association building, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, and Pitt’s Alumni Hall.

Drug Discovery Institute

The process of drug discovery and development has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last decade, driven by multiple forces coming from the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industries, government funding agencies, academic programs, and life sciences and diagnostics companies. There is now a mutually beneficial environment where more collaboration is possible between these entities that will accelerate innovations and improvements in the efficiency of developing therapeutics.

Under the leadership of D. Lansing Taylor, the Drug Discovery Institute at the University of Pittsburgh is optimizing the discovery and development of new molecular entities through collaborations among faculty members, academic centers, corporations, and government agencies, together with innovations in chemistry, molecular biophysics, and quantitative systems pharmacology.

Dining Hall Recycling

As part of Pitt’s Dining Services Sustainability Initiative, Compass Group-managed Market Central now composts pre-consumer and post-consumer waste, reducing food waste by nearly 75 percent in the dining hall. Trays are no longer available at the all-you-care-to-eat facilities, to discourage students from loading up trays with foods that ultimately end in the trash. And waste cooking oil from Market Central, The Perch, Cathedral Cafe, and Schenley Café now goes to Fossil Free Fuel through the Refuel Pittsburgh initiative. 

Croghan-Schenley Ballroom

The Croghan-Schenley Ballroom is located on the first floor of the Cathedral of Learning. Behind its wooden door is a Greek Revival ballroom highlighted by four hand-carved wooden columns and a magnificent hand-cut glass chandelier that originally was illuminated by candles.

Today used for receptions and meetings, the ballroom and its adjoining parlor were originally part of a mansion built in the 1830s by William Croghan Jr. for his daughter Mary. But she never danced in it, scandalously eloping at age 15 with 43-year-old Captain Edward Schenley of the British Army. In the 1940s, the ballroom and parlor were moved and restored inside the Cathedral and christened the Croghan-Schenley Room.

Mary Schenley donated the land that became Schenley Park to the city of Pittsburgh in the late 1800s. A fountain in her honor stands in front of the Frick Fine Arts Building.

School of Public Health

Pitt's School of Public Health was founded in 1948 with the mission of providing leadership in health promotion, disease prevention, and the elimination of health disparities.

Pitt Public Health ranks highly among schools of public health in National Institutes of Health funding and maintains collaborative relationships with Pitt's five other health science schools as well as community organizations and the local and state health departments.

The sculpture outside the building, titled "Man," symbolizes the human quest for knowledge. It was created by Pitt professor Virgil Cantini (1991-2009).

Chevron Annex

The Chevron Annex, a recent addition built atop the Ashe auditoriums of the existing Chevron Science Center, provides additional space for the Department of Chemistry’s synthetic and analytical chemistry labs. This addition was designed to achieve a LEED gold rating. Green features of its construction include more than 95 percent recycled construction and demolition waste; low-flow plumbing fixtures; low-VOC paints, coatings, carpets, adhesives; high performance glazing and low-flow fume hoods; and bicycle racks and showers to promote alternative transportation.

LEED Gold certification, 2013.

Chancellor’s Office

The chancellor’s office is located on the first floor of the Cathedral of Learning. Directly responsible to the University’s board of trustees, the chancellor also serves as the representative of the students, staff, faculty, and administration to the board. Patrick G. Gallagher (pictured) took office as Pitt's 18th chancellor on Aug. 1, 2014.

The chief executive of the University of Pittsburgh has been called “chancellor” since 1871. Before that, the head of the University was known as the “principal,” but the trustees believed that title was more appropriate for a schoolmaster than the leader of an institute of higher learning.

Centre Plaza Apartments

The 67 units in the Centre Plaza Apartments house 197 students. The air-conditioned, furnished apartments accommodate from one to three students. Kitchens include microwaves, garbage disposals, and dinettes, as well as refrigerators, stoves, and dishwashers.

Center for Vaccine Research

The Center for Vaccine Research (CVR) is composed of the Vaccine Research Laboratory and the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory. The CVR engages a cross-section of scientists in infectious disease research. Activities span basic research on molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases to the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. The CVR supports interdisciplinary research efforts focused on emerging infections that threaten human health.

The CVR boasts 32,000 square feet of laboratory and office space; it is housed in Biomedical Science Tower 3. 

Center for Sports Medicine

The Center for Sports Medicine, located on Pittsburgh’s South Side, just a few miles from the Pitt campus, specializes in the treatment and prevention of sports-related injuries and offers sophisticated training programs to improve athletic performance. Research conducted by the center’s sports medicine specialists—including Pitt professors—helps to develop better methods of treating and preventing sports-related injuries and diseases.

Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering

The Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering is a state-of-the-art facility that has won architectural awards for its design. Among many unique projects and educational efforts, the center sponsors approximately 80 undergraduate interns who work with faculty in bioengineering, musculoskeletal research, chemical engineering, and tissue engineering.

The center is located in a technology park in South Oakland, on the banks of the Monongahela River. A shuttle connects the center with the Pitt campus.

Cathedral Falcons

Students, faculty, and staff members come and go from Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning. But, since 2002, the Cathedral has been the permanent home for pairs of Peregrine falcons—the fastest animals on Earth, capable of reaching 200-plus mph during their characteristic steep dives after prey.

Peregrine falcons were almost eliminated from the eastern United States due to the introduction of pesticides, and were listed as endangered in the 1970s. Since then, the birds have returned and prospered thanks to legal protections, restrictions on the use of DDT, and reintroduction efforts.

The Cathedral’s Peregrines produce chicks every year. It’s an amazing sight each spring as adult falcons teach their chicks to fly and hunt, especially when the chicks launch themselves off the Cathedral for their first training flights. The Cathedral is an ideal site for falcon breeding because it’s a tall building with restricted site access and few predators.

Cathedral Architectural Detail

The Cathedral of Learning was designed by Charles Klauder, who fused the idea of a modern skyscraper with the tradition and ideals of Gothic architecture. The support structure of the Cathedral is steel, like that of a typical skyscraper, while the exterior and finishing details take their cues from the Gothic period.

Leading out of the Commons Room are a set of 18-foot ornamental iron gates crafted by master blacksmith Samuel Yellin in the 1930s. They were placed in 1940 and include a quote from poet Robert Bridges:

  Here is eternal spring; for you the very stars of heaven are new.

Yellin also produced the ironwork railings seen around the room and other pieces in the Humanities Center, some of the Nationality Rooms, Stephen Foster Memorial, and Heinz Chapel.

The exterior of the Cathedral contains elements of Gothic style including the quatrefoil stonework detail on some of the window exteriors.

Carrillo Street Steam Plant

The Carrillo Street Steam Plant is a significant part of the University’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint. The facility is one of the cleanest university heating plants in the United States, emitting relatively little exhaust or wastewater for a facility its size. The full use of this facility by Pitt/UPMC is expected to reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 48,000 metric tons, nearly half of the baseline steam-related CO2 emissions.

Biomedical Science Towers 1 and 2

Biomedical Science Towers1 and 2 are located in the heart of Oakland’s medical community, just across the street from the School of Medicine and the School of Dental Medicine. These original two towers were built in 1990 and house offices and laboratories for 21 departments and programs, including an entire floor of laboratories devoted to the research of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute.

The first tower was renamed the Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower in honor of the liver transplant pioneer who has taught and worked at Pitt since 1981.

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation

The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI), part of Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering, is located in Benedum Hall. MCSI is a center of excellence in sustainable engineering focusing on the design of sustainable neighborhoods.

In renovating Benedum Hall to create the Mascaro Center addition, green building practices were used. A LEED gold certification was achieved for design practices including installation of highly efficient, long-lasting LED lights on the exterior that contain no mercury; specialized moneysaving mechanical controls on lab equipment; a reflective thermoplastic polyolefin, or TPO, roof that minimizes heat absorption; and more than 95 percent of construction refuse recycled. Additionally, two green roofs were installed—over Benedum Plaza and over the auditorium.

LEED Gold certification,  2012.

Benedum Hall houses the Swanson School of Engineering. The building includes offices, labs, classrooms, conference and seminar rooms, a 528-seat auditorium that is divisible into three lecture halls, and the George M. Bevier Engineering Library.

Benedum has undergone an extensive renovation, employing green building principles, which earned a LEED gold certification. The 22,000-square-foot renovation houses the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, which focuses on the design of sustainable neighborhoods.

William Pitt Union

Once a luxurious hotel, the William Pitt Union is today the epicenter of Pitt student life outside the classroom and home to more than 300 student organizations.

Opened as the Hotel Schenley in 1898, the beaux-arts building hosted every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower as well as such cultural luminaries as American singer-actress Lillian Russell (who married there), Italian tragedian Eleonora Duse (who, tragically, died there), and Neapolitan-born tenor Enrico Caruso.

Visiting ballplayers, professors, and students joined the Schenley’s clientele in 1909 when Forbes Field (home to baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates) opened nearby and when Pitt relocated to Oakland from Pittsburgh’s North Side.

In 1956, Pitt bought the building to serve, among other things, as the University’s student union. Following an 18-month renovation that restored much of its original belle époque charm, it was renamed the William Pitt Union in 1983.

Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Named after Pitt’s 15th chancellor, Wesley W. Posvar Hall houses the College of General Studies, the Office of Veterans Services, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, the University Center for International Studies, and the social sciences departments of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. It is the largest academic-use-only building on campus.

The building sits on the former site of Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909 to 1970. Babe Ruth hit his last two home runs at the ballpark. The home plate from Forbes Field is preserved on the ground floor of Posvar Hall, embedded in glass. A commemorative plaque notes the last two games played on the field—a double-header against the Chicago Cubs. Outside the hall, brick inlaid into the concrete sidewalk marks the line of Forbes Field’s outfield wall.

Hanging from the ceiling of Posvar Hall, amid various artworks and sculptures, is one of two surviving Langley Aerodomes, Aerodrome No. 6, dating from 1896. Among the first engine-driven heavier-than-air craft, it was designed by former Pitt astronomer Samuel Langley. Only nine days after No. 6 flew more than 5,000 feet, the Wright brothers made their historic first successful flight of a manned aircraft. 

Victoria Hall

Home to Pitt’s School of Nursing, Victoria Hall is conveniently close to the University's five other health sciences schools as well as various UPMC facilities.

Victoria Hall is a historic building located in Oakland that has served as the home of The University of Pittsburgh’s top-ranked School of Nursing since 1978. The building has been renovated and modernized to provide state-of-the-art facilities for nursing students and faculty. The building features classrooms, lecture halls, computer labs, skills and simulation labs, and other research and learning spaces conducive to promoting collaborative and hands-on learning experiences. Conveniently located adjacent to the University's other world-class research facilities and health sciences schools and numerous clinical sites, Victoria Hall provides an ideal setting for nursing education and research.

Closely affiliated with Pitt’s schools of the health sciences, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is the fifth-largest medical establishment in the world. Many Pitt students participate in internships and research at UPMC facilities, and hundreds of the University’s faculty members serve as UPMC clinicians.

UPMC’s Oakland facilities include UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Montefiore hospitals, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, the Kaufman Building, Falk Clinic, the Eye and Ear Institute of Pittsburgh, and Detre Hall.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked UPMC in its honor roll of best hospitals in America for more than a decade. UPMC’s organ transplantation program is the largest and busiest in the world.

University Honors College

Founded in 1987, the David C. Frederick Honors College (FHC) meets the particular academic and extracurricular needs of Pitt’s most able, motivated, and inquisitive undergraduate students by providing intellectual challenge, inspiring individual effort, and fostering independence of mind and self-discovery.

Located on the Cathedral of Learning’s 35th and 36th floors, FHC offers lectures, special classes, advising, housing and support, and the option of a research-based degree, the Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil) . Unlike honors colleges at many other universities, FHC is not off-limits to the general student population. Any qualified Pitt undergraduate may take honors classes and meet with an honors advisor at any point in his or her Pitt career. 

University Club

Faculty and staff members socialize with colleagues in this urban oasis, enjoying fine dining, a fitness center, library and reading room, and lounge. The building also houses banquet and conference facilities, as well as housing for families of hospital patients.

Constructed in 1923 to house a private social club, the building was purchased in 2005 by Pitt. Following an extensive renovation, it was reopened as Pitt’s University Club in 2009.

Trees Hall Fitness Center

As a student athletic facility, Trees Hall houses a pool, dance studio, weight room, racquetball and handball courts, five basketball/volleyball courts, a gymnastics area, climbing wall, golf practice area, and classrooms. The University’s athletic training program also is located at Trees.

The Olympic-size Trees Pool serves as the home to Pitt's varsity men's and women's swimming and diving teams. With a capacity of 770,000 gallons, it was the largest indoor pool in the United States when completed in 1962.

Thackeray Hall

Thackeray Hall is home to such student services as registration and add/drop for classes, academic transcripts, and grades. Students also can make tuition payments at Thackeray.

In addition, the building houses the Advising Center of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, the main undergraduate school at Pitt, and the University’s Department of Mathematics.

Built in the Early Classical style between 1923 and 1925, Thackeray Hall is the former National Union Fire Insurance Company building. Pitt purchased it in 1968.

O’Hara Student Center

The O’Hara Student Center houses Pitt’s Math Assistance Center and Writing Center. In addition, the building provides meeting and activity space for student organizations.

The elegant three-story building, designed in Romanesque Revival style, opened in 1913 to house the Concordia Club, a private social club whose members included many of Pittsburgh’s leading Jewish residents. In the face of declining membership and a cash shortage, club members voted in 2009 to approve the sale of the building to Pitt. Following a renovation and preservation upgrade, the University reopened the building as a student center in April 2011.

Sutherland Hall

Perched on the upper campus, overlooking Oakland, Sutherland Hall houses 737 first-year men and women. The complex is composed of Sutherland West and East, adjoined by a common building. The common area includes the Perch at Sutherland made-to-order restaurant facility, a Quick Zone convenience store, a computer center, the Hill O'Beans coffee cart, and a mail center.

The air-conditioned rooms in Sutherland Hall are mostly doubles with semi-private baths. Laundry facilities and fitness rooms are on the ground floors of both Sutherland East and West.

The living learning community for First-Year Honors College students is located in Sutherland Hall.

Stephen Foster Memorial

The Stephen Foster Memorial is home to most mainstage productions of the University’s Department of Theatre Arts. The facility’s 478-seat Charity Randall Theatre replicates features of the original Foster auditorium but is equipped with state-of-the-art technical, sound, and lighting capabilities for the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre (a.k.a., Pitt Rep) and guest companies. Downstairs, the 151-seat Henry Heymann Theatre provides a more intimate setting.

Designed by Charles Klauder to complement his Cathedral of Learning, the Foster Memorial is a tribute to Pittsburgh native Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), America’s first professional songwriter, whose works include “Camptown Races” and “Oh Susanna.” It was dedicated in 1937.

The Stephen Foster Memorial Museum houses an exhibit on Foster’s life; adjacent to it is Pitt’s Center for American Music, a special collections library that contains one of the nation’s most significant collections of 19th-century American music. 

Space Research Coordination Center

In 1962, Pitt won a NASA grant to erect this center for students studying the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and health areas related to the aerospace field. Today, the building houses classrooms, labs, and main offices of the University’s Department of Geology and Environmental Science.

Southside Sports Complex (UPMC Sports Performance Complex)

Situated on 40 acres along the Monongahela River on Pittsburgh’s South Side, the UPMC Sports Performance Complex includes four state-of-the-art facilities: the Center for Sports Medicine, indoor training center, fitness and conditioning center, and sports training center.

The indoor training center features a quarter-mile four-lane running track and full-size practice football field. The sports training center is the ideal setting for athletic training, physical training, and team management. It includes four 80-yard outdoor fields with observation towers that allow coaches to clearly analyze and improve on-field performance. It’s the outdoor training facility for Pitt’s football team.

Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum

Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum commemorates the men and women from Allegheny County who have served in every U.S. war since the Civil War. Styled after the ancient mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Soldiers & Sailors is the largest memorial in the United States dedicated to America’s military personnel.

Designed by architect Henry Hornbostel and dedicated in 1910, the building houses a museum featuring rare and one-of-a-kind exhibits as well as a 2,500-seat auditorium, a banquet hall, and meeting rooms. Many Pitt functions are held at Soldiers & Sailors. An expansive front lawn sits on top of an underground parking garage that's operated under a long-term lease by the University.

Sennott Square

The Dietrich School's Department of Psychology and Department of Computer Science, the College of Business Administration, and the School of Law's Civil Practice Clinic make their homes in Sennott Square. From a foundation that incorporates more than one million pounds of reinforcing rods and 575 truckloads of concrete, Sennott Square rises six floors above street level to provide more than 117,000 square feet of functional space. The first floor contains nearly 17,000 square feet of retail shops with access from Forbes Avenue. On Sennott Street, two parklets with benches and ornamental shade trees provide perfect places to relax.

The first Pitt building to incorporate green construction techniques throughout, Sennott Square is environmentally friendly and energy efficient.

Schenley Quadrangle Residences

Schenley Quad contains five of the University's 14 residence halls. Holland, Brackenridge, Bruce, McCormick, and Amos. Holland and Amos (sorority housing) are residence halls for women. Most of Brackenridge, Bruce, McCormick, and Amos Halls offer suite-style living (including a living area kitchen/kitchenette, private/semi bathrooms). The Quad fitness center is located in Brackenridge Hall. Brackenridge houses mostly sophomore and some junior University Honors College students.

The buildings in Schenley Quad used to be the Schenley Apartments, residences for well-to-do Pittsburghers. Built in 1924, these apartments became part of the University in 1956.

Schenley Park

Close to the Pittsburgh campus, Schenley Park comprises 456 acres of rolling hills, woods, trails, a swimming pool, tennis courts, a golf course, a nature center, and an ice skating rink. Many students go sled riding in Schenley in the winter and watch free movies during the summer on the park’s Flagstaff Hill. The park also contains Phipps Conservatory, an indoor botanical garden. Students can explore Phipps Conservatory and Botantical Gardens for free with their Pitt ID.

Alan Magee Scaife Hall

Alan Magee Scaife Hall is the home of Pitt’s School of Medicine, a top recipient of National Institutes of Health research funding and ranked as a “top medical school” by U.S. News & World Report in the categories of research and primary care.

The building contains classrooms, lecture halls, and laboratories. Also housed here is Falk Library, home of the Health Sciences Library System, which serves the schools of the health sciences (Medicine, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Public Health).

The School of Pharmacy and the School of Dental Medicine are housed in Salk Hall. The building was named after Jonas Salk, who conducted his research on the first polio vaccine in this building while a member of the Pitt faculty.

Salk Hall is designated as a historic landmark of both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation.

Ruskin Hall

Ruskin Hall was renovated to an apartment-style housing facility in 2008. Each of its apartments can accommodate one, two, or three students, all of them upperclassmen. Amenities include central A/C, private bathrooms, full furnishings, basic cable, Ethernet, and kitchens equipped with a microwave, refrigerator, stove, and dishwasher.

Public Safety Building

Pitt’s state-of-the-art Public Safety Building, located at 3412 Forbes Avenue—a highly visible and accessible location near the entrance from Downtown to Oakland—symbolizes the University’s commitment to protecting the safety of its Oakland neighbors, the city of Pittsburgh, and Pitt students, faculty, and staff.

The building’s lobby is staffed 24 hours a day. Its communications center connects more than 70 Pitt commissioned law-enforcement officers with one another and with city, county, and state public safety agencies, and allows Pitt personnel to monitor conditions throughout the 132-acre campus and the greater Oakland community. About 40 percent of the calls handled by University police involve non-Pitt personnel. 

Pitt’s police department is the third-largest in Allegheny County and is recognized as one of the best trained and professional police forces anywhere.

Pittsburgh offers Pitt students many opportunities to enjoy and benefit from its lively downtown, growing economy, and distinctive neighborhoods—including Oakland, the Pittsburgh campus's home neighborhood and the city's cultural and educational hub. By presenting a current Pitt ID, students can ride all public transportation in Allegheny County free of charge.

Truly, the city is an extension of campus.

The University’s PITT ARTS program enables students to attend cultural events at venues like downtown's Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts for free or at greatly reduced rates. At Heinz Field on Pittsburgh's burgeoning North Shore, students can cheer themselves hoarse during Pitt Panthers home football games (the Pittsburgh Steelers play there, too). The city's South Side and Lawrenceville neighborhoods, with their many cafés, clubs, galleries, eateries, and shops, also are popular with students from Pitt and the city's six other universities.

Petersen Events Center

The John M. and Gertrude E. Petersen Events Center houses a 12,508-seat multi-purpose arena that serves as home court for the men’s and women’s Panthers basketball teams and also hosts concerts and such Pitt ceremonies as the annual Commencement Convocation.  Bob Dylan and then-Senator Barrack Obama (campaigning for the presidency in 2008) are among the more notable figures to have played “The Pete.”

In a Sports Illustrated survey of Big East Conference basketball players, the Petersen Events Center was named “Toughest Place to Play,” with players citing Pitt’s creatively distracting and deafeningly loud student section, the Oakland Zoo.

Besides its arena, the Pete houses the Willis Center for Academics for student athletes, the McCarl Panthers Hall of Champions, the Pittsburgh Panthers Team Store, and the 40,000-square-foot Baierl Student Recreation Center featuring racquetball and squash courts and areas for aerobics, weights, and exercise machines.

Winner of an Innovative Architecture & Design Honor Award from Recreation Management magazine, the Petersen Center opened in 2002 on the former site of Pitt Stadium, home of Pitt’s football team from 1925 to 1999.

Panther Hall

Panther Hall, located on the upper campus, houses 511 upper-class men and women. The air-conditioned rooms are a combination of three-person and five-person suites and doubles with private baths. Every floor includes an open lounge, study area, and laundry facilities. The fitness center is located on the ground floor.

K. Leroy Irvis Hall is located near the Petersen Events Center on the upper campus, where it offers striking views of Oakland. The building houses 420 upper-class men and women in four-person suites and doubles with private baths. Each floor includes a lounge and laundry facility. There is a fitness center on the ground floor.

Irvis Hall houses two living learning communities: upperclass honors and health sciences.

Originally called Pennsylvania Hall, the building was renamed in 2017 in honor of K. Leroy Irvis, a Pitt Law alumnus, teacher, activist and longtime member of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives. In 1977, Irvis's colleagues unanimously elected him as speaker of the house; he was the first African American to serve as a house speaker in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction.

Nationality Rooms

The 29 Nationality Rooms in Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning represent the cultures of various ethnic peoples that settled in Allegheny County and are supported by those cultural groups and governments. Designated collectively as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation historical landmark, the rooms are located on the first and third floors of the Cathedral, itself a national historic landmark.

Of the 29 rooms, 27 are functional classrooms and two (the Early American and Syria-Lebanon rooms) are display rooms that can be visited only during guided tours. Nearly 30,000 visitors a year tour the Nationality Rooms, which are available daily for public tours when not being used for classes or other University functions. (Taped and written materials for self-guided tours are available at the Nationality Rooms Information Desk on the first floor, near the Fifth Avenue entrance.)

The first four rooms to be dedicated were the Scottish, Russian, German, and Swedish Rooms, in 1938. The newest are the Swiss and Turkish rooms, both dedicated in 2012.

Design of the classrooms often involves native artists and imported artifacts and materials. For example, the Tudor-Gothic-style English Classroom, the largest of the Nationality Classrooms, contains relics from the British House of Commons that was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing in 1941.

Music Building

The Music Building is home to the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Music labs, offices, library, and classrooms. In an earlier life, it was the first home of WQED-TV, the first educational television station in the United States. It was also the original site for the production of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood .

Mervis Hall

Mervis Hall houses the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. The Katz School's MBA program has been rated one of the 10 most affordable, high-quality programs in the United States. It also has been selected as one of the best business schools in the nation by the Princeton Review, and is ranked 11th in the world among public business schools by The Wall Street Journal . Katz is rated in the top four in terms of its percentage of African American students and faculty members.

Dedicated in 1983, Mervis Hall was built on the former site of Forbes Field, home of baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909 to 1970. The field’s flagpole and a portion of the left and center field walls still stand, just outside Mervis Hall and adjacent to the building’s left plaza.

Medical Arts Building

The Medical Arts Building houses a variety of Pitt and UPMC offices. Pitt's Student Health Service, a primary care facility that features a comprehensive health care clinic, pharmacy, and health education program, is located on the fifth floor. An example of Art Deco architectural style, the building was constructed in 1932. 

Lothrop Hall

This residence hall is close to UMPC medical buildings, Falk Clinic, and the School of Nursing. Lothrop is a coed-by-floor residence hall that is available to both freshmen and upperclassmen. It has mostly single rooms with a few doubles. Most rooms are equipped with a sink, and each wing has a communal bathroom and shower on each floor.

Because of its proximity to the medical center, Lothrop Hall contains the Nursing Living Learning Community. It also houses a student fitness center.

The log cabin near the Cathedral of Learning symbolizes Pitt’s origins as a frontier academy of higher learning. Estimated to date from the 1820s or 1830s, the cabin was reconstructed on campus for the University’s bicentennial in 1987. University Trustee Charles Fagan III bought the cabin and donated it to Pitt in honor of his wife, Ann Ebbert Fagan, who graduated from the University in 1962.

Litchfield Towers

The largest housing complex on campus, Litchfield Towers is home to many of Pitt’s freshmen students. Towers A, B, and C are coed and house approximately 1,800 students.

The Towers Lobby, a social crossroads, connects all three buildings and also houses Panther Central—the University's concierge service provider, a one-stop center where students can take care of ID card issues as well as Housing and Dining Service needs. The lobby is also home to the Common Grounds coffee cart, the student mailroom, e-mail kiosks, a vending area, and laundry facilities. On the lower level of the towers is one of the main dining services areas, Market Central, which offers superior eat-in menu options for those who desire the total dining experience. For students on the go, there's a separate section that includes Market-To-Go for tasty take-out meals, and a Quick Zone for convenient snacks and beverages.

The Towers Fitness Center, open only to Towers residents, is open 24 hours a day.

Learning Research and Development Center

A startling and award-winning example of modern architecture designed by Harrison and Abramovitz, the unique Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) building slopes against an upper-campus hillside at a 45-degree angle. LRDC leads the country in education and psychological research, and its scholars have contributed substantially to knowledge about human cognition, learning, and effective schooling and training.

Focusing on interdisciplinary research, LRDC includes education scholars, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, developmental and social psychologists, psycholinguists, evaluation and measurement specialists, organizational behavior researchers, and education policy analysts.

Barco Law Building

A classic example of brutalist architecture, the Barco Law Building houses Pitt’s School of Law. Among the building’s special features is the oak-paneled Teplitz Memorial Moot Courtroom, which includes a seven-seat judges’ bench, jury and press boxes, counselors’ tables, judges’ chambers, jury room, and a striking 24x36-foot mosaic created by Pitt’s Virgil Cantini (1919-2009).

Pitt has offered law classes since 1843. Its law school was officially founded in 1895, making Pitt’s one of the oldest law schools in the nation. In 1900, the law school joined with 31 other schools to form the Association of American Law Schools.

Among Pitt’s law graduates are the late Derrick Bell Jr., the first tenured African American professor at Harvard Law School and one of the originators of critical race theory; U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch; the late K. Leroy Irvis, longtime Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the first African American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction; and former U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania Richard Thornburgh.

With significant programs focusing on international law, as well as community-based public service expertise, the school provides a diverse, sophisticated, and hands-on legal education.

Information Sciences Building

The School of Computing and Information (SCI) educates students for a wide range of specializations in computing and information professions. The school offers five bachelor's, five master's, and five doctoral degree programs as well as four certificates of advanced study.

Designed by Tasso Katselas in the brutalist architectural style, the Information Sciences Building was purchased by Pitt in 1968. It houses SCI classrooms, offices, a 70,000-volume library, and the Elizabeth Nesbitt Room. With more than 12,000 books and magazines dating from the 17th century to the present, the Nesbitt Room contains the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Archives and such rare books as a 1719 edition of Robinson Crusoe .

Humanities Center

The Humanities Center, housed in the refurbished Darlington Library in the Cathedral of Learning, fosters advanced research in the humanities by Pitt faculty members as well as leading scholars from around the world, who visit as long- and short-term fellows. The center offers a regular colloquium series, conference and seminars, and supports collaborative research projects.

Hillman Library

Focused primarily on the humanities and social sciences, the five-floor Hillman Library contains approximately 1.5 million volumes, more than 200 computers, study capacity for 1,500 users, service points, a media center, specialized collections, and more. It’s the largest of the 17 libraries on the Pittsburgh campus.

Among Hillman’s special collections are the Eduardo Lozano Latin American Collection, the Buhl Social Work Collection, and the African American Collection. The last collection, begun in 1969, contains 18,000 books, scores of African American periodicals, scholarly journals, and one-of-a-kind government publications, including copies of the FBI surveillance files on Malcolm X and the Black Panthers.

Pitt's largest library, Hillman periodically hosts free public displays of treasures from the University's collections. Among the permanent items are the Audubon Exhibit Case, featuring original prints from John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827-38), and an interactive display featuring the Gold Medal won by Pitt alumnus and track star John Woodruff at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

The Cup & Chaucer Café, located on Hillman’s ground floor, includes popular reading materials and a coffee bar serving coffee and espresso drinks, pastries, and sandwiches. The café also hosts a free weekly series of Emerging Legends Concerts.

Heinz Memorial Chapel

Open to campus religious groups of all denominations, as well as the public, Heinz Memorial Chapel is a popular site for religious and memorial services, concerts, guided tours, and weddings.

Each year, the chapel hosts between 170 and 190 weddings. Among the musicians who perform regularly at the chapel are the Heinz Chapel Choir, an a cappella choir consisting of Pitt students. The chapel itself was a gift of company founder, Henry John Heinz, and his three children in honor of H.J.’s mother. The architect was Charles Klauder, who also designed the nearby Cathedral of Learning.

The chapel’s 23 exquisitely detailed stained glass windows, designed by Charles J. Connick, depict 391 sacred and secular figures representing religion, history, medicine, science, and the arts. The 73-foot transept windows are among the tallest in the world and depict an equal number of women and men. All of the visible wood in the chapel, including its two 800-pound entrance doors, is oak. All of the wrought iron work, including lanterns, door fittings, stair railings, candlesticks, and alter cross, were created by Samuel Yellin, who also designed the metal work in the Cathedral of Learning (including the massive Commons Room gates) and most of the metal work in Pitt’s Nationality Classrooms.

Frick Fine Arts Building

The Frick Fine Arts Building is home to the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Studio Arts. Opened in 1965, the building is a gift of Helen Clay Frick in memory of her father, Pittsburgh industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick.

Modeled after a Roman villa owned by Pope Julius III (1487-1555), Frick Fine Arts houses classrooms, art galleries, an open cloister, and one of the nation’s top fine arts libraries. The building’s treasures include reproductions of 15th-century Florentine Renaissance artworks by Russian artist Nicholas Lochoff. In 1911, Lochoff was commissioned by the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts to travel to Italy and make a series of copies of the finest examples of Renaissance art. Those copies, considered by some to be the finest replicas of the original works, were acquired by Pitt and placed in Frick Fine Arts.

The fountain outside the building was designed by Victor Brenner, the same artist who sculpted the portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the U.S. penny.

Fraternities/Sororities

Pitt’s Greek system includes 22 fraternities and 13 sororities. Institutions that predate the Revolutionary War, college fraternities and sororities help students meet new friends, participate in social and community activities, and network with alumni.

The University's fraternities and sororities are located in both on- and off-campus housing. On-campus sororities are located in Amos Hall and the third floor of Bruce Hall. The sorority suites each feature a kitchen, private bathrooms, a living room, and a chapter room.

On-campus fraternities can be found on the upper campus near Sutherland Hall.

Forbes Tower

Forbes Tower houses the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS). The school’s highly ranked programs prepare students for professions in communication science and disorders, emergency medicine, health information management, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, prosthetics and orthotics, rehabilitation technology, and sports medicine and nutrition. SHRS also offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree and a Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Science degree.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked all SHRS programs among the top 10 percent of comparable programs in the United States. The school's physical therapy program is ranked third in the country, occupational therapy is ranked fourth, and the audiology and speech-language pathology programs are ranked seventh.

Forbes Hall

Forbes Hall houses 232 first-year men and women in air-conditioned double rooms. Some rooms are connected to semi-private powder rooms, but showers are communal. Each floor also has a study room and laundry area. There is a fitness center on the second floor. Freshman engineering students are housed in Forbes Hall.

Forbes Craig Apartments

The Forbes Craig Apartments, located across from the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History, house students involved in the Upperclass Honors Housing Living Learning Community. The 39 apartment units accommodate 102 upperclassmen in single and double bedrooms. Learn more about the University Honors College .

Forbes Avenue

Forbes Avenue runs through the heart of campus and is arguably Pittsburgh’s busiest street. With numerous retail shops, museums, restaurants, and hotels, Forbes Avenue offers students a cosmopolitan and diverse environment­—all within walking distance of dorms as well as off-campus housing. (Pitt facilities along Forbes can be recognized by their navy-blue awnings.)

Not-to-be-missed stops along Forbes Avenue include Primanti Brothers, famous for its fries-on-the-inside sandwiches, and The Original Hot Dog Shop, a.k.a. the “O.” The "O" sells more than 15 tons of French fries a week. Don’t go with the large order of fries unless you’re planning to feed a half-dozen people. Seriously.

Fitzgerald Field House

Named for Rufus Fitzgerald, the University’s chancellor from 1945 to 1955, the Fitzgerald Field House was for five decades the home of the Pitt men’s and women’s basketball programs. Both teams moved to the Petersen Events Center in 2002, but the 4,122-seat Field House remains the competitive venue for Pitt’s volleyball, gymnastics, and wrestling teams, as well as the primary indoor facility for the track and field team. It also houses training and equipment rooms.

Notable events at Fitzgerald Field House have included NCAA national and regional championships in gymnastics, wrestling, and volleyball; 2005 Senior Olympics competitions; and a 1962 speech by President John F. Kennedy.

David Lawrence Hall

Lawrence Hall houses classrooms and lecture halls for courses in disciplines across the arts and sciences. The building's 998-seat auditorium is the largest lecture hall on campus. A 24-hour computer lab, one of the University's most popular, also is in Lawrence Hall.

Completed in 1968, the building was named for David L. Lawrence, a Pitt trustee from 1945 to 1966 who was also Governor of Pennsylvania (from 1959 to 1963) and Pittsburgh’s mayor from 1946 to 1959 during the city’s Renaissance I urban-renewal program. In front of the hall stands the sculpture Ode to Space by Pitt's Virgil Cantini (1919-2009), a memorial to Pitt Chancellor Edward Litchfield, who died in a 1965 plane crash.

Darragh Street Apartments

The Darragh Street Apartments are located on the University’s upper campus, convenient to the School of Medicine, Scaife Hall, Salk Hall, and the Petersen Events Center. The facility is fully accessible and offers the convenience of an urban location with the comfort of a garden-style setting. It houses both one- and two-bedroom layouts. Each unit has individual temperature controls; a washer and dryer; and a fully equipped kitchen, including a dishwasher, garbage disposal, and microwave. Apartments are unfurnished. Residents enjoy basic cable service and high-speed Internet access.

Located within the South Craig Street shopping area of Oakland, Craig Hall houses several University offices, including those providing employment, payroll, and benefits services and the Office of University Communications.

Cost Sports Center

The Cost Sports Center contains a full size indoor football field that can be converted into 3 smaller soccer fields. The facility houses varsity athletic programs, club sports teams, intramural leagues, recreational activities and special events.

Clapp, Langley, and Crawford Halls

The Clapp/Langley/Crawford complex comprises three interconnected buildings and the Life Science Annex. Together, they house Pitt’s Departments of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience. 

Clapp Hall, named for aluminum executive George Hubbard Clapp, is a six-story structure that is the primary home of the biological sciences department.

Langley Hall also houses biological sciences facilities, as well as the 77,000-volume Langley Library, which is the biology, neuroscience, psychology, and life sciences unit of Pitt’s University Library System. The building was named after Samuel P. Langley, a 19th-century Pitt astronomy professor who pioneered heavier-than-air flight and later served as a Smithsonian Institution Secretary. His Aerodrome No. 6, one of only two surviving Langley aircraft, hangs from the ceiling of Wesley W. Posvar Hall.

Crawford, dedicated in 1969 and the last of the three buildings to be constructed, is home to the neuroscience department. It was named after Stanton C. Crawford, Pitt’s 13th chancellor.

The Life Science Annex, an expansion of the complex that includes labs and neuroscience research programs among other facilities, opened in October 2007. 

Chevron Science Center

Dedicated in 1974, the Chevron Science Center is home to Pitt's Department of Chemistry, one of the nation's largest undergraduate chemistry departments.

Founded in 1875, the department has awarded more than 1,000 doctoral degrees and counts among its alumni Nobel Prize-winner Paul Lauterbur, who helped develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Other alumni and researchers in the department have made important discoveries in fields like recombinant DNA technology, nanotechnology, and alternative fuels, and have pioneered innovative drug and transplant therapies.

Recent renovations to Chevron have added new organic chemistry research labs, an electronic reference library, and a café named the Bunsen Brewer. Gracing the building’s lobby is a 40x30-foot porcelain enamel mural, Science and Mankind , by Virgil Cantini.

Cathedral Commons Room

Fifty-two feet (four stories) high and almost a half-acre, the Cathedral of Learning's Commons Room is a Gothic-style hall that offers a unique setting for study, contemplation, and celebration. This room is a piece of true Gothic architecture; no steel supports were used in the construction of its arches.

Joseph Gattoni designed the stonework. The walls are made of Indiana limestone and the floor is green Vermont slate. The wrought iron in the room, including railings, lanterns, and an imposing gate, were designed by master ironworker Samuel Yellin; inscribed on the gate is a verse from Robert Bridges' "Ode to Eaton College": "Here is eternal spring; for you the very stars of heaven are new."

Students looking for help with calculus, chemistry, psychology, and other subjects get assistance from faculty members and grad students who volunteer at desks scattered around the Commons Room. Wireless Internet is available, but despite such technological upgrades the room retains the timeless quality described by Margaret Storm Jamerson, an English novelist who served as a visiting professor at Pitt in the late 1940s:

"To look down into the great hall called the Commons Room when it is filled with students sitting about reading, arguing, drinking coffee, is to be reminded—distantly, but without any sense of incongruity—of a medieval refectory or chapter-house."

The Commons Room occasionally hosts dinners, receptions, and other special events. Among the guests who have addressed Commons Room gatherings in recent years is Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev (in 2009). Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Pitt alumnus Wangari Maathai (2006) attended a reception in the room after speaking in Alumni Hall.

In 1957, innoculation teams set up in the Commons Room gave free injections of the new polio vaccine created by a team led by Pitt's Jonas Salk. (Pittsburgh was the first major city in the United States to rid itself of polio.) During 1943, the room—like much of the rest of the Cathedral—served as an installation for U.S. military personnel.

A time capsule in the Commons Room's cornerstone was a gift from the 1937 graduating class (Pitt’s 150th year) and contains documents meant to last 500 years. Included are signatures of the graduating class and faculty, a copy of the 1937 yearbook ( The Owl ), an edition of the Pitt News , the names of the building’s major donors and craftsmen, and a plate commemorating the original 17 nationality rooms. This statement is also included: “The Cathedral of Learning expresses for Pittsburgh a desire to live honestly in a world where kindness and the happiness of creating are life.”

Carnegie Complex

Located across Forbes Avenue from Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning, the Carnegie complex was a gift to the city of Pittsburgh from Andrew Carnegie in 1895. The complex contains the region's main public library, a music hall, a fine arts museum, and a natural history museum. A unique view of the natural history museum’s world-famous dinosaur hall can be seen through the windows in the second-floor stacks of the library. University of Pittsburgh students may show their valid Pitt IDs and visit the museums free of charge.  

A replica of the natural history museum’s Diplodocus carnegii  (named after Andrew Carnegie) was unveiled on the lawn of the Carnegie complex in 1999. “Dippy's" long neck often is decorated with various scarves, depending on the seasons, and on some Panthers game days Dippy sports a blue-and-gold scarf to honor its neighbor, Pitt.

Bouquet Gardens

Bouquet Gardens consists of nine garden-style apartment buildings. Located a few blocks from the heart of campus, Bouquet Gardens accommodates 651 students in 172 units. Each air-conditioned unit is furnished and includes a kitchen, living room, and dining area. Bouquet Gardens buildings A-H have four single bedrooms and two bathrooms. Building J consists of three-person apartments with one bathroom and four-person units with two bathrooms. Building J also contains a small mail center, fitness center, and indoor bike parking.

Bellefield Hall

Bellefield Hall is home to a variety of University offices and services, but most Pitt students, faculty, and staff know the building for its indoor swimming pool, gym, and fitness center. It also houses facilities for the Department of Music, including the William R. Robinson Digital Recording Studio and a 676-seat auditorium where many recitals and concerts are held.

A Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark, Bellefield Hall was designed by famed architect Benno Janssen. Renowned ironworker Samuel Yellin (best remembered at Pitt for creating the massive gates in the Cathedral of Learning’s Commons Room) crafted the lanterns for the main entrance.

Originally home to the Oakland branch of the Young Men’s and Women’s Hebrew Association, Bellefield Hall was dedicated in 1926. Among the musicians who made their Pittsburgh debuts in the building’s auditorium were Arthur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, and Jean-Pierre Rampal.

Alumni Hall

Alumni Hall is home to the Pitt Alumni Association, the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, a 270-seat auditorium/lecture hall, and the 500-seat Connolly Ballroom, among other offices and facilities. The building’s first floor hosts the Legacy Gallery, a permanent exhibit featuring two unique touch-screen interactive kiosks. Visitors use the kiosks to explore the achievements of alumni, faculty, and students through video, audio, archival photos, and text.

Mellon Financial Corporation Hall, located on the fifth floor, includes classrooms, team rooms, and meeting space for the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business’s Center for Executive Education and Executive MBA Program. This refurbished space was made possible by a $1 million gift from Mellon Financial Corporation.

The seventh-floor auditorium lobby houses a collection of oil paintings, 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning , completed in 1997-1999 by Spanish artist Felix de la Concha. Each painting features the Cathedral of Learning from a different vantage point for each of 365 days.

Originally a Masonic Temple and designed by renowned architect Benno Janssen, the limestone-clad building was constructed in 1914-15 and acquired by Pitt in 1993. It is a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark and part of the Oakland Civic Center Historic District.

Allegheny Observatory

Located in Pittsburgh’s Riverview Park, the Allegheny Observatory is a major astronomical research institution that houses the third-largest refracting telescope in the world. Here, scientists confirmed that Saturn’s rings aren’t solid but are composed of numerous small particles—one of many important discoveries by Pitt astronomers.

Pitt students enjoy access to the observatory’s telescopes and other equipment, and observatory astronomers teach courses at the University. Popular public tours of the observatory are offered from April through late October.

In 2009, the observatory installed a highly sensitive seismograph that can detect as little as a half-nanometer-per-second displacement of the Earth's crust caused by earthquakes, explosions, and other seismic events anywhere in the world. Its readings are fed into the public databases of a national consortium of universities pooling and analyzing seismic data.

Cathedral of Learning

The Gothic Revival skyscraper that Pitt Chancellor John G. Bowman commissioned in 1921 inspired local industries to donate steel, cement, elevators, glass, plumbing, and heating elements. Thousands of adults today still have the certificates they received as school children upon contributing 10 cents to “’buy a brick” for the Cathedral.

In addition to its magnificent four-story Commons Room at ground level, the 42-story Cathedral houses classrooms (including the internationally renowned Nationality Classrooms) academic and administrative offices, libraries, computer labs, a theater, a print shop, and a food court.

In 2007, on the 70th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, Pitt trustees approved a project to clean and restore the iconic building. Its interior has since been upgraded and its limestone exterior scrubbed of industrial grime.

A landmark listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the 535-foot-tall Cathedral is the second-tallest educational building in the world after the University of Moscow’s main building. In recent years, families of peregrine falcons have nested atop the Cathedral.

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The tour will stop in 26 cities and feature guests like T-Pain in select shows.

Mr. Worldwide will be on the road again.

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The "Feel This Moment" rapper will kick off his "Party After Dark" tour August 21 in Bristow, Virginia and is currently scheduled to wrap up October 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tickets go on sale starting April 26 at 10 a.m. local time via LiveNation.com. VIP packages are also available at VIPNation.com.

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• The Bus Tour offers unlimited 360° panoramic views of main sights of Moscow.
• Access to audio-guide in 10 different languages which enables to know about Moscow’s history and traditions.
• The three-bus tour routes and 40+ stops around Moscow completes the trip. Draw an itinerary to explore the city on your own.
• There can be a boat tour and bus tour to enjoy panoramic views of Moskva River.
• Smartphone Voucher Accepted. (No need to print)

The City Sightseeing at Moscow begins at Bolotnaya Square with Hop-on-Hop-off bus service. The bus operates on the Red, Green and Orange lines. If you have limited time in Moscow, start your trip on the Redline and get yourself acquainted with the city’s 16 best attractions. The green line, however, covers 26 amazing spots so if you are staying for an extended period catch the green line.

• Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
• Alexander Garden
• GUM State Department Store
• Sofiyskaya Embankment
• Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
• University Square, Vorobyovy Gory Observation Deck
• Hotel Ukraina Pier
• Zaryadye Park
• Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
• VDNKh Metro Station
• Cosmonauts Alley
• Ostankino Television Tower
• Red Route: Schedule: 10:00 - 18:00 , Loop: 60 Minutes , Frequency: 15 Minutes
• Green Route : Schedule: 10:00 - 18:00 , Loop: 120 Minutes , Frequency: 30 Minutes
• Orange Route : Schedule: 10:00 - 18:30 , Loop: 140 Minutes , Frequency: 30 Minutes
• 24 / 48-Hours Hop-on Hop-off Bus Ticket
• Red Line Audio Guide: Russian, English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Farsi
• Green Line Audio Guide: Russian, English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Arabic
• Orange Line Audio Guide : Russian English, German, Spanish, Italian, French
• Guided walking tour
• Boat Tour (If option selected)
• Hotel Transfers
• Entrance Fees (Unless Specified)

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You can board the bus at any stop and voucher can be exchanged directly with the driver. Printed vouchers required for this tour and are accepted at all stops. You will receive a ticket in exchange for your voucher, which you must keep until the expiry date/ tour. Please check your ticket to know when it expires. After exchanging your voucher for a ticket, your voucher will no longer be valid. In loss of voucher/ticket, company is not liable for any refund. Book Now! You can use your ticket any day within 12 months.

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Wheelchair Access, Heating Please note that face masks must be worn on board the bus. Orange Route is temporarily suspended   

Operational Details: Walking Tour

• Daily at 10:45 a.m.
• Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
• Meeting point: next to the monument to Saints Cyril and Methodius (Kitay-Gorod metro station)

Capital River Boat Tour

• May - October: from 11:30am to 6:30pm (Subject to change)
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Departure Point: Zaryadye Park Pier

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Our 20 Best Moscow Tours of 2022

Join us on an unforgettable tour to Moscow, the capital of Russia. Imagine visiting Red Square, St. Basil’s the Kremlin and more. Moscow is one of Europe’s most vibrant cities and one of Russia’s most historical. All of our tours to Moscow are fully customizable and can be adjusted to fit any budget. Our most popular tours are listed below. Please click on the tour details to learn more or contact us for more information about our Moscow tours using the form at the side of the page. You can also schedule a call with one of our Russian travel specialists to learn more.

Classic Moscow

This is our most popular Moscow tour that includes all the most prominent sights. You will become acquainted with ancient Russia in the Kremlin, admire Russian art in the Tretyakov Gallery, listen to street musicians as you stroll along the Old Arbat street, and learn about Soviet times on the Moscow Metro tour.

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A Week in Moscow

This tour is a perfect choice for those who wish to get to know Moscow in depth. One of the highlights of this package is the KGB history tour which gives an interesting perspective on the Cold War. You will also have time for exploring the city on your own or doing extra sightseeing.

Weekend in Moscow

This tour is a great way to get acquainted with the capital of Russia if you are short of time. You will see all the main attractions of the city, the most important of which is the Kremlin - the heart of Russia. The tour starts on Friday and can be combined with a business trip.

Group Tour Moscow Break by Intourist

Russia's capital has so much to offer, from the Kremlin and the Metro to the Old Arbat street and the Tretyakov Gallery. Besides these sites, you will also visit a fascinating country estate which today is quite off the beaten path, Gorky Estate, where the Soviet leader Lenin spent the last months of his life.

Kolomenskoye Tour with transport

The history of Kolomenskoye stretches back for centuries. In 1380, Dmitri Donskoi’s army passed through Kolomenskoye on their way to the Kulikovo battlefield, and it was...

Tours by car

Kremlin, Red Sq., Cathedrals & Armory Tour

The Kremlin is truly a fascinating structure, at the same time it is an ancient tower, the city’s former military fortification, a palace, an armory, the sovereign treasury...

Walking tours

Kremlin, Red Sq., Cathedrals, Armory, Diamond Fund Tour

Old Arbat walking tour

You will be told of the street’s interesting history and view the street’s artisan culture. You will also have the opportunity to view and purchase souvenirs from the...

Tour to Sergiev Posad with transport

Considered by some to be the Russian Vatican, Sergiev Posad is the temporary residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Trinity St. Sergius Monastery (Lavra)...

Tour to Kuskovo with transport

The Kuskovo Estate often called the Moscow Versailles due to its perfectly preserved French park, is an example of an 18th century, luxurious Moscow summer residence. Its history...

Tour to Tsaritsyno with transport

The Tsaritsyno Estate is located in the southern part of Moscow. The estate was constructed for Catherine the Great by the Russian architects Bazhenov and Kazakov in a romantic...

Moscow Metro and Old Arbat Tour

The Moscow Metro is one of the largest and most grandly built metro systems in the world. It was meant to be a showcase of the Soviet Union’s achievements for both the Russians...

Vodka Museum Tour with transport (excursion and vodka tasting)

Vodka is an important component of Russian life, an element of national identity and everyday culture. We invite you to visit the Vodka Museum and feel the atmosphere of long-gone...

Mikhail Bulgakov Apartment Museum

This apartment museum located close to Patriarch Ponds became the prototype of the "bad apartment" described in the novel "The Master and Margarita." Currently the museum's...

Kremlin, Red Sq., Cathedrals & Diamond Fund Tour

The State Museum of Lev Tolstoy Tour

Take this opportunity to learn more about the Russian writer Lev Tolstoy. During the visit to the museum you will see part of a vast collection of exhibits connected to Tolstoy...

Novodevichy Convent Tour with transport

Tour of the Novodevichy Monastery. Founded in 1524 by Grand Prince VasiliIoanovich, the original convent was enclosed by fortified walls and contained 12 towers. The structure...

City Tour with Visit to St. Basils & Red Sq. with transport

Panoramic City Tour. This Moscow tour is a great start to your trip and the best way to get acquainted with many of the city’s major highlights. Our professional guide will...

City Tour of Moscow

Head to the heart of Moscow with a professional guide on a 4-hour private walk through the city center. See Tverskaya and Old Arbat streets, Theatre Square with the world-famous...

Moscow Metro walking tour

Kremlin, Red Square and Cathedrals Tour

KGB Tour with transport

This is a very interesting and insightful tour. You will visit places connected with Stalin’s terror - a time of great repression and fear. You will be shown monuments to...

Soviet and Post-Soviet Moscow Tour

The tour begins with a drive or walk down Tverskaya Street – a Soviet masterpiece. In the years of Soviet power, Tverskaya began to undergo a transformation: it was widened...

Tretyakov State Gallery Tour

This world-famous gallery contains masterpieces of Russian art beginning in the 10th century up until today. You will view exquisite Russian icons and paintings from the 18th and...

Jewish Heritage of Moscow Tour

This tour offers a detailed look into the history and present-day life of the Jewish community of Moscow. On the tour, you will visit sites connected with the cultural and religious...

Vodka Museum Tour with transport (excursion only)

Lena, our guide in Moscow was excellent. She was very knowledgable and could answer any question we had for her. We liked that she could pick up on our interests and take us places we might not have thought of to go. When we realized that one of the places we had chosen to see would probably not be that interesting to us, she was able to arrange entry to the Diamond Fund and the Armoury for us. Riding the Metro with Lena was a real adventure and a lot of fun. In Saint Petersburg we found Anna well versed in the history of the Tsars and in the Hermitage collection. Arkady in Veliky Novgorod was a very good guide and answered all of our questions with ease. Novgorod was perhaps a long way to go for a day trip, but we did enjoy it. Vasily was a great driver to have and kept us safe with good humour and skill. We enjoyed ourselves so much, my daughter says she is already planning to return. We would both have no hesistation to recommend ExpresstoRussia to anyone we know.

Just wanted to let you know that My grandson Bruno and I couldn´t have been more pleased with our week in Moscow (6/15 - 6/21). We were absolutely enchanted with the whole experience, including getting lost a couple of times in the Metro during our free time. Although both our guides (both Eleanas) were excellent, I would particularly commend the first one (she took us to the Tatiakov, the KGB tour, and to that beautiful cemetery where so many great Russian artists, authors, composers, musicians, militarists, and politicians are buried). Her knowledge is encyclopedic; and her understanding of today´s Russia as a product of its past was, for us, truly enlightening. I will be taking another tour in Russia, with my wife, within the next two or three years. I will be in touch with you when the time comes. Meanwhile, I will refer you to other potential visitors to Russia as I meet them.

Tours to Moscow

Our Moscow tours are land only meaning that you arrange your own air travel to Russia and our expert staff meets you at the airport and handles everything else from there. Our online Airline Ticket booking system offers some of the most competitive rates to Russia available on the web so if you need tickets, please visit our Russian air ticket center . Rest assured that you will be taken great care of on one of our Moscow tours. Express to Russia has a fully staffed office in Moscow that will help to make your visit fun, informative and unforgettable. Please remember that of all these tours are private and can be adjusted to your taste. You can add, replace or skip some sights; you can add more days to the package or cut the tour short. Our specialists will be glad to help you create the tour of your dreams!

Moscow, a City Like No Other

Moscow is Russia’s largest city with a population of between 12 and 13 million. It is also Europe’s largest city and when you visit Moscow, you can feel it. The layout and architecture of the city is eclectic, ranging from crooked, ancient streets and alleyways to wide, bustling boulevards, from medieval churches to Stalin skyscrapers and to modern, glass buildings towering over everything and of course in the center of it all is the Kremlin and the magnificent Red Square. Moscow is also home to a fantastic, efficient and very beautiful metro system – each station having its own special design. In fact, Express to Russia’s Moscow metro tours and excursions are some of our most popular attractions that we offer. On our Moscow tours, you will see this and more.

Moscow Tours centering on Russian History

Moscow has a long and interesting history and has been the capital of Russia in many of its different iterations – capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow , the Russian Empire and of course the Soviet Union (who could ever forget the Soviet Union?). Moscow, was founded in the 12th century by Prince Yuri Dolgaruki (Yuri of the long arms – he really did have long arms!). From that time on, it was home to the Russian Tsars until Peter the Great moved the capital to St. Petersburg in 1703. The city has survived invasions and sieges from the Mongols, the Tartars, the Poles, Lithuanians and Napoleon but has always persevered. Our Moscow tours will enlighten you on this great history and give you insights into Muscovites and their unique culture. Our Moscow tours show you what the city is like today but also brings to life the past. Moscow never seems to sleep and is bursting with energy. A Moscow tour with Express to Russia is truly the best way of getting to know Russia’s largest and most vibrant city.

Frequently Asked Questions From Our Travelers

What is the best time to visit moscow.

Any time of year is fine depending on what you plan to do. Summertime is pleasantly warm, ideal for exploring the city and its vibrant atmosphere, but Moscow will be much busier and accommodation is more expensive. Winter can be quite cold but beautiful nonetheless, and this is unproblematic if you intend to spend most of your trip in museums and galleries. There are also various festivals and events organised throughout the year. For more information about the best time to visit, read our guide

How many days are enough in Moscow?

If you plan your itinerary strategically and aren’t averse to a packed schedule, you can cover Moscow’s main sights over a long weekend. Most popular attractions are in the city centre, and the Moscow Metro allows you to cover much ground in a small amount of time. Ensure that your accommodation is fairly central and book tickets in advance, so that you can make the most of your days. For an informative and well-organised day out, check out our Moscow day tours with options to suit all interests.

Do they speak English in Moscow?

As Russia’s capital city, tourists are well accommodated in Moscow. There should be English-speaking staff in restaurants, bars, hotels, shops and attractions in tourist hotspots, and there are also English-speaking tourist police. Transport services have English translations on their maps and English announcements via intercom; alternatively, order taxis from the Yandex Taxi app (Russian Uber), though it’s unlikely that your taxi driver will speak English. If you get stuck and cannot communicate, it’s fine to use Google Translate.

Is it safe to travel to Moscow?

It is no less safe to travel to Moscow than to any European city if you exercise common sense and look after your belongings. As with every city some regions can be more unsavoury than others, but no tourist attractions are located there. The traffic in Moscow is notorious, so exercise caution when crossing roads. Do not take unlicensed taxis; book in advance or take public transport, which is widespread and perfectly safe. If you encounter any problems, look for the special tourist police who can help you. For more information, read our guide about staying safe in Russia .

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