FOCUS TOUR: HISTORIC ALCOA BUILDING

Friday, September 26
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

$25 per person

This tour is limited to 20 participants.

Purchase a ticket below. Tickets will not be available after 11:30 p.m. on September 25.

The original headquarters of the Aluminum Company of America has been an extraordinary presence on Downtown’s landscape ever since rising from its site between 1951 and 1953. The world’s first building clad in aluminum, it is literally a skyscraper-size advertisement for the material: staircases, light fixtures, elevators, mail chutes, and even sculpture were fabricated in aluminum. It was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz, the same New York City firm that brought to Pittsburgh the U.S. Steel Tower and several other buildings in Downtown.

The Alcoa building has experienced two changes in ownership since 1998 and is now owned by a Philadelphia company that carried out a comprehensive renovation of the building and converted part of it from offices to apartments. Recognizing the building’s significance, it named the apartment section The Residences at the Historic Alcoa Building. Our tour will be led by a principal of Strada, the architectural firm that designed the renovation and conversion.

Tour meeting point:  Lobby of the Historic Alcoa Building, 611 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Tour ending point:  Lobby of the Historic Alcoa Building

Please arrive 15 minutes before start time in order to ensure that the tour gets underway on time.

Accessibility: This tour is handicap accessible. Please notify us of your needs two business days in advance of the tour.

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All tour participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Children under the age of 13 may attend tours free of charge. By purchasing a ticket for this tour, you acknowledge that you are physically able to undertake the tour, assume all personal risk during the tour, consent to being photographed during the tour, and permit PHLF to use your image in our communications.

All ticket sales are final.