Pythian Temple, 2007-2013 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
Summary
Significance: The New Granada Theater was designed in 1927 by Louis A. Bellinger,
Pittsburgh's first prominent African-American architect, for a local African-American Knights of Pythias lodge. Conversion into the New Granada Theater in the 1930s inspired the addition of a striking polychromatic Art Deco ground floor. The theater and its Savoy Ballroom functioned as a major entertainment institution for The Hill neighborhood until the riots in the 1960s.
Survey number: HABS PA-6728
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pittsburgh pa
pythian
temple
pythian temple
centre avenue
pittsburgh
allegheny
allegheny county
pennsylvania
historic american buildings survey
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
architecture
race relations
african americans
detroit publishing company photograph collection
library of congress
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
,
40.44391, -79.97993
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html