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11 Stanwix Street

Skyscraper in Pittsburgh

Field	Value
name	11 Stanwix Street
status	complete
image	11 Stanwix Street Pittsburgh.jpg
caption	View of 11 Stanwix Street building from the West End Bridge
location	11 Stanwix Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
completion_date	November 24, 1969
architect	Harrison & Abramovitz
cost	$20 million ($ million today)
floor_area	738,000 sqft
floor_count	23
parking	500
building_type	Office
roof	355 ft
name	Westinghouse Electric Corporation Headquarters
embed	yes
nrhp_type	cp
partof	Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District
partof_refnum	13000252
designated_nrhp_type	May 2, 2013
nocat	yes

11 Stanwix Street, formerly known as the Westinghouse Tower, is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States.

History and architectural features

11 Stanwix Street was completed on November 24, 1969, with twenty-three floors. It was originally built and named for the Westinghouse Corporation; in 1999, that company went through a restructuring and moved its headquarters to its longtime research park in the suburb of Monroeville, before expansions in their operations necessitated a move to a larger suburban complex in Cranberry Township.

This tower rises 355 feet (108 meters) above Downtown Pittsburgh and is located near the Monongahela River. A ten-story building that once served as the city's main post was previously located on this site.

During this building's early years, one of the tenants was Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Pittsburgh, which occupied the third and fourth floors. FHLB later moved to the National Steel Building on Stanwix Street, finally making its permanent home in the Porter Building on Grant Street, now renamed for FHLB. As of June 2009, the building tenants were IBM, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, the advertising firm Brunner, and the local headquarters of KeyCorp.

Gallery

File:westinghousepgh.jpg|View from Point State Park showing First Niagara signage

References

[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A35IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=32wDAAAAIBAJ&dq=westinghouse-building&pg=5012%2C3809614 "The Example of Gateway Centre"], ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', 25 November 1969
Jack Sholl (AP), [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E_5dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EF8NAAAAIBAJ&dq=westinghouse-building&pg=658%2C4191498 "Pittsburgh Marks Gateway Center's Redevelopment"], ''Observer-Reporter'', 25 November 1969
Dave McConnell, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A35IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=32wDAAAAIBAJ&dq=westinghouse%20building&pg=7050%2C3836454 "Equitable May Invest Still More in City"], ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', 25 November 1969
(May 2, 2013). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District". National Park Service.

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