Teutonia Maennerchor Hall

The story

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The Teutonia Maennerchor Hall is a building at 857 Phineas St. in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, built in 1887-1888 in a Late Victorian and Romanesque style. George Ott was the architect, and the Stripecke Brothers built it.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2004 under criterion A, with local-level significance in European ethnic heritage. Its period of significance runs from 1888, when the hall was dedicated, to 1954, when the facade was remodeled with fieldstone veneer.

Physical character

The hall is a two-story brick building on a stone foundation, with a gambrel front-gabled roof and a facade of half-round and triangular pediments over a grid of dark-brown wood strips, remodeled with fieldstone veneer. A concrete-block addition with a shed roof was built on the west side in the 1950s, and the lower level was rebuilt in 1934 as a German-style Rathskeller. The main hall's interior, remodeled in 1942, has a double flight of stairs to a mezzanine, bronze chandeliers and glass display cases.

Historical context

The Teutonia Maennerchor, a German singing society founded in 1854, purchased a lot on Pike Street in 1887, built the hall as its home, dedicated it in 1888, and added a women's chorus, the Damenchor, in 1935.