Charles Bickel

Charles Bickel
The O'Hara Student Center, formerly the Concordia Club (1913), in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Charles A. Bickel (1852 - 1 February 1921) was a prominent architect practicing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1]

Bickel was born to a well-to-do family of Columbus, Ohio who sent him to Europe for six years to prepare him for a career in architecture. On his return in 1875, he settled in Pittsburgh, apprenticed with an architect there. In 1885 opened his independent practice, at first in partnership with J.P. Brennan, a partnership that was soon dissolved. Bickel's practice at its height averaged $3,000,000 a year in billings and was concentrated in commercial structures. He served for a time as architect to the city of Pittsburgh, and designed and built numerous police precinct houses and the Public Safety offices.

Failing health forced him to retire in 1920, and he turned his practice over to his son.[2]

Selected commissions

South Side Market Building (1915) in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh

Many of Bickel's commercial structure were of fireproof construction.[3]

  • Logan-Gregg Hardware Company building, eight storeys.
  • Spear & Company, ten storeys
  • May Building, twelve storeys
  • German National Bank, 313 Sixth Avenue, downtown Pittsburgh, eight storeys, 1890
  • Columbia National Bank, ten storeys
  • Methodist Book Concern building, eight storeys
  • United Presbyterian Book building, eleven storeys
  • H. and I Kaufman and I. Kaufman stores, ten and twelve storeys, 1898
  • Hartje Building, twelve storeys, and three Hartje storeys
  • B. White Building, eight storeys
  • Atlantic Financial Building, 1889[4]
  • Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse
  • Haines Building, ten storeys
  • McKay Building, eight storeys
  • Olympia Theatre
  • Reymer Brothers Candy Factory at 1425 Forbes Avenue in the Bluff neighborhood of Pittsburgh, 1910
  • Concordia Club, 1913
  • Second Presbyterian church, Eighth Street
  • South Side Market Building at 12th and Bingham Streets in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, 1915
  • Methodist Episcopal Church, lincoln Avenue
  • German Savings and Trust Company
  • Duquesne National Bank
  • National Ben Franklin Fire Insurance Company Building
  • Westmoreland Club, in Verona, Pennsylvania
  • N. Nathan & Brothers Building, Johnstown, Pennsylvania

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Notes

  1. ^ Biographical information drawn from George Thornton Fleming, History of Pittsburgh and Environs, 1922, p. 255.
  2. ^ An obituary published in The Western Builder, 304 (April 1921) p 42, has not yet been consulted.
  3. ^ List from George Thornton Fleming, History of Pittsburgh and Environs, 1922, p. 255.
  4. ^ "Designed by architect Charles Bickel in 1889, the granite building has been described as "one of the finest Romanesque buildings in Pittsburgh" (Historic Preservation 41 (1989:74).



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