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
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Pittsburgh (Pa.), 40.44391, -79.97993
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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