Cathedral of Learning

Sender: Meena7

The University of Pittsburgh's 42-storey Cathedral of Learning, long known as the "world's tallest schoolhouse", reaches a height of 535 feet. Constructed between 1926 and 1938, its Truncated Gothic style, whose vertical lines never meet, signifies that education never ends. The tower's Gothic Commons Room is ringed by the world-famous Nationality Rooms.

Meena7 asked me to check out the underlined words on the web..I found out that the Nationality Rooms are 26 functional classrooms decorated in the styles of classrooms of various nationalities and cultures as they would have appeared prior to the University's founding in 1787. They include the Czechoslovak Room, the Italian Room, the German Classroom, the Hungarian Room, the Polish Room, the Irish Classroom, the Lithuanian Room, the Romanian Room, the Swedish Room, the Chinese Room, the Greek Room, the Scottish Classroom, the Yugoslav Classroom, the English Classroom, the French Classroom, the Norwegian Classroom, the Russian Classroom and the Syria-Lebanon Room!!! Wow!!!