William S. Moorhead Federal Building

The William S. Moorhead Federal Building is a 340-foot (100 m) tall skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Plans for the building were announced on November 9, 1958 and the structure was completed in 1964. It has 23 floors and is the 21st tallest building in Pittsburgh.[2]

William S. Moorhead Federal Building
Northeast side of the Moorhead Building
General information
Type	Office
Location	1000 Liberty Avenue
Coordinates	40°26′36″N 79°59′40″W
Construction started	November 9, 1958
Completed	1964
Owner	General Services Administration
Height
Roof	340 ft (104 m)
Technical details
Floor count	23
Design and construction
Architect	Altenhof & Bown
Main contractor	Burchick Construction Company, Inc.[1]

History

The building, then simply known as the Federal Building, was a $20 million project finished in 1964 as a centralized home for what had previously been a large number of scattered offices throughout several different office buildings in Pittsburgh. Designed by Altenhof & Bown, the building replaced an existing Greyhound bus station on the property.[3] The building housed 21 tenants, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Veterans Administration, the Army Corp of Engineers (formerly housed in the Manor Building), the Weather Bureau (formerly in the US Post Office and Courthouse), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (formerly in the Union Trust Building), and the Central Intelligence Agency (originally referred to as "Agency 39"), employing 4,000 employees.[4]

In 1980, the building, then home to 35 federal agencies, was renamed the William S. Moorhead Federal Building, in honor of retiring Representative William S. Moorhead. Despite some criticism of the practice of naming buildings after retiring officials at that time, the statute to rename the building was approved on October 9, 1980.[5][6]

Side of the structure

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh

References

1. "William S. Moorhead Federal Building". Burchick.com. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
2. William S. Moorhead Federal Building
3. "William S. Moorhead Federal Building". Historic Pittsburgh. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
4. Rodgers, James (September 13, 1964). "Uncle Sam's Address: 1000 Liberty Avenue". The Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
5. Jaques, Milton (September 27, 1980). "The Moorhead Building? It may be". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
6. "94 Stat. 1723 - An act to designate the United States Federal Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the "William S. Moorhead Federal Building"". govinfo. Retrieved May 8, 2020.

External links

• Emporis
• Skyscraperpage