{"nrhp_refnum":"74001746","name":"Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5th Ave. at Bigelow Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.445233528000074,"lon":-79.95621367099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A monumental Beaux Arts civic memorial building at the top of a long grade in Oakland, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, opened in 1911. It serves as both a war memorial and a functional building with an auditorium, banquet hall, meeting rooms and a museum.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a major example of Beaux Arts Classicism, designed by Pittsburgh architect Edward Hornbostel after a competition. It is presented as one of Hornbostel's best works and as a memorial to Allegheny County soldiers, sailors and marines, with bronze statues and tablets honoring them.","narrative":"Built in Oakland, Pittsburgh, and opened in 1911, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall is a monumental Beaux Arts building of stone set on a two-story podium. Its main facade has eight colossal Doric columns between massive piers, and a roof crowned by a sculpture of the Phoenix. Bronze statues of a soldier and a sailor, designed and cast by Frederick C. Hibbard, flank the entrances. Palmer and Hornbostel were awarded the commission after a competition, and the architecture is associated with Edward Hornbostel, among Pittsburgh's leading architects of the period. The building was erected to honor soldiers, sailors and marines from Allegheny County who served in the Army and Navy. Its interior holds an auditorium, a banquet hall, meeting rooms and a museum with Civil War memorabilia, and sixty-three bronze tablets honor county veterans on the first floor.","period_of_significance":"1911","architect_builder":"Palmer and Hornbostel (architects)","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts Classicism","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Memorial is still in use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.982269-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/74001746.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001746/b7fd274bf8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001746/b7fd274bf8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"The original uploader was Willjay at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SoldiersMemorial_Pittsburgh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Willjay at English Wikipedia.</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SoldiersMemorial_Pittsburgh.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83002213","name":"Schenley Farms Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/schenley-farms-historic-district-additional-documentation-83002213/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997762","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers_and_Sailors_Memorial_Hall_and_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7557406"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/soldiers-and-sailors-memorial-hall-74001746/"}