Parran Hall

40°26′34″N 79°57′30″W / 40.442646°N 79.958211°W / 40.442646; -79.958211

The former Parran Hall, home of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh

Parran Hall is the former name of an academic building on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh on Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] The building, constructed to house the Graduate School of Public Health, was completed in 1957, and designed by Eggers & Higgins, architects of the Dirksen Senate Office Building,[2] in the International Style[3] with a major addition by Deeter-Ritchey-Sippel and Crump completed in 1967.[4] The school was founded in 1948 with a $13.6 million grant ($172.5 million today) from the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust.[5] It was originally named after Thomas Parran Jr., a former head of the United States Public Health Service at the time the Public Health Service was sponsoring the Tuskegee experiment, in which patients with syphilis were studied but did not receive treatment for the disease.[1]

The nine-story building is the primary home of the Graduate School of Public Health. The building encompasses an entire city block bounded by Fifth Avenue, Bouquet, O'Hara, and DeSoto Streets. It contains a 282 seat auditorium, lounge, administrative offices, seminar rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices.[6]

  1. ^ a b Snyder, Christian; Faust, Janine (6 July 2018). "Board of trustees unanimously votes to rename Parran Hall". The Pitt News. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Emporius: Eggers & Higgins". Archived from the original on June 19, 2004. Retrieved 2012-10-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ University of Pittsburgh Facilities Management Division; MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni Inc. (2010-01-29), Proposed Institutional Master Plan Update University of Pittsburgh (Final Draft) (PDF), University of Pittsburgh, p. 41, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-20, retrieved 2011-01-23
  4. ^ "Emporis Building Number 240363". Pittsburgh: Emporis.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2007. Retrieved 2012-10-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ Tour of Pitt Archived June 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ About the Graduate School of Public Health Archived September 3, 2006, at the Wayback Machine