Pittsburgh History: From Gilded Grandeur to Glass Tower

The Pittsburgh History Speaker Series is presented by Dollar Bank, the Duquesne University Department of History, and Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation.

Thursday, March 26
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Dollar Bank
340 Fourth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

This event is FREE and open to the public. Registration is not required.
Dollar Bank’s doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be provided.

To view online, please type Dollar.Bank/SpeakerSeries into your browser by 5:45 on the evening of the event.

Each year, Dollar Bank and Duquesne University’s Department of History offer an internship that provides an opportunity for a student in the school’s Master of Arts program in Public History to do focused research in the Bank’s corporate archives.

This year’s intern, Matt Wollett, will present his work investigating the history, design, and construction of the Bank’s iconic Fourth Avenue structure, looking, in particular, at the laborers who built it. Providing context for this fresh perspective on the building will be journalist and architecture writer Mark Houser, and Tracy Myers, our organization’s education coordinator.

Dollar Bank (completed 1871; addition 1906) is the only historic building on Fourth Avenue—once known as the Wall Street of Pittsburgh—that still functions in the capacity for which it was intended. The building was awarded a Historic Landmark Plaque by Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation in 1970. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and is part of the Fourth Avenue National Historic District, which was listed in 1985.