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Burke Building

The Burke Building in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a building from 1836. It was Pittsburgh's first major office building and a major anchor of the city's financial district centered on Fourth Avenue.
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: commercial building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Also known as: “Meyer Building”
  • Address: 209, 211 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Market Square and Benedum–Trees Building.

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is a public space located in at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Market Street. The square was home to the first courthouse and first jail, and the first newspaper west of the , the Pittsburgh Gazette.

Building
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The , which is located at 223 Fourth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1905. It was commissioned by Caroline Jones Machesney, the daughter and sole heir of a Pittsburgh banker, making it the first skyscraper in the city ordered by and built for a woman.

Shopping center
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The is a former theater and concert hall located at 332 Fifth Avenue in . It opened as the Grand Theatre on March 7, 1918, with Douglas Fairbanks in Headin' South and Winifred Westover in Her Husband’s Wife. is situated 810 feet east of Burke Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Pittsburgh and Uptown Pittsburgh.

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Downtown is the main business district and urban center of life in the city. Constrained by the Allegheny River on the north and the Monongahela River on the south, which join to form the Ohio River at what is known as the "Point", Downtown has been forced to grow upwards.

Neighborhood
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Uptown or The Bluff is a neighborhood in the city of , Pennsylvania, to the southeast of the city's Central Business District. It is bordered in the north by the Hill District and located across the Monongahela River from .

Neighborhood
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is a community within the larger neighborhood of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and an internationally acclaimed model of community design.

Burke Building

Latitude
40.44° or 40° 26′ 24″ north
Longitude
-80.00256° or 80° 0′ 9″ west
Inception
1836
Levels
3
Open location code
86GXCXQW+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 202731593
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q4998927
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Burke Building”. Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.