Allegheny County Court House

H.H. Richardson has been called “the father of U.S. architecture.” Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh was one of the last commissions Richardson accepted before his untimely death at the age of 48. Although he did not live to see its completion in…

…at Harvard University, at the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail (1884–87) in Pittsburgh, at the Glessner House in Chicago (1885–87), or in the series of libraries in the small towns around Boston, from Woburn and North Easton to Quincy and Malden. The Crane Memorial Library in Quincy, Massachusetts (1880–82), with…

…in this vein are the Allegheny County Court House and Jail, Pittsburgh (1883–88), and the Marshall Field & Co. Wholesale Store, Chicago (1885–87; demolished in 1930).