The William Pitt Union, built in 1898 as the Hotel Schenley, is the student union building of the University of Pittsburgh main campus, and is a Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. Designed by Pittsburgh-based architects Rutan & Russell in the Beaux-Arts style of architecture, the Schenley Hotel catered to local and visiting well-to-do people. The University of Pittsburgh acquired the property in 1956.
The building, originally known as the Hotel Schenley and designed by architects Rutan & Russell, opened in 1898, became the keystone of entrepreneur Franklin Nicola’s dream of Oakland as a center for culture, art and education. Nicola had been instrumental in the formation of the Bellefield Company with the help of Andrew W. Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie, George Westinghouse and H.J. Heinz, who were among the first stockholders to share Nicola’s vision for Oakland. They erected the beaux-arts structure on land once owned by fellow stockholder Mary Croghan Schenley. The Schenley Hotel was Pittsburgh's first large, steel-framed "skyscraper hotel" it was described as "Pittsburgh's class hotel of the early 20th century".
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William Pitt (4 June 1855 – 25 May 1918) was an architect, public servant and politician working in Victoria, Australia, in the later part of the 19th century and early 20th century.
Although some of his grandest buildings have since been demolished including the Melbourne Coffee Palace (1879) and the Federal Coffee Palace (1888), some examples of Pitt's architectural work remains today and he is still strongly associated with the boom era of Marvellous Melbourne.
Pitt's roots were in the suburb of St Kilda, he lived, was educated there and lived there for some time and one of his finest contributions and surviving architectural works, the St Kilda Town Hall is one of the landmarks of the area (although his original vision for the building was never fully realised).
Pitt began his own architectural practice in 1879 and he became highly sought after during the land boom in Melbourne, working almost solely in commercial architecture and becoming one of the a prolific proponent of eclecticism, in particular the Gothic revival and Second Empire styles of architecture. His legacy can be seen in grand commercial buildings lining Collins Street, Melbourne.
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William Pitt (birth name: William Frederick Pate) is a U.S.-born pop singer who scored a European hit with 'City Lights'.
Before the start of his music career, Pitt worked in America as a model. Halfway the 1980s he moved to Paris, Europe, and got discovered by music producer Pascal Pillet-Desjardins who offered him a record deal.
Pitt's debut single 'City Lights' became a small hit in France in 1986. A year later the song became a hit in many European countries, including Germany and The Netherlands where the song reached the Top 20. Follow-up single 'Funny Girl' only made it to the lower regions of the German chart. A comeback single was released in 1990.