Mellon Institute of Industrial Research

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Mellon Institute
Coordinates: 40°26′46.04″N 79°57′03.72″W / 40.4461222°N 79.9510333°W / 40.4461222; -79.9510333Coordinates: 40°26′46.04″N 79°57′03.72″W / 40.4461222°N 79.9510333°W / 40.4461222; -79.9510333
Area: Schenley Farms Historic District
Built: 1937
Architect: Benno Janssen
Architectural style: Neoclassical
Governing body: Carnegie Mellon University
Part of: Schenley Farms Historic District (#83002213)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP: July 22, 1983[2]
Designated PHLF HL: 2003[1]

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, founded in 1913 by Andrew W. Mellon and Richard B. Mellon, merged with the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1967 to form Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. While it ceased to exist as a distinct institution, the landmark building bearing its name remains located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bellefield in Oakland, the city's university district. It is sited adjacent to The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the University of Pittsburgh's Bellefield Hall and is across Bellefield Avenue from two other local landmarks: the University of Pittsburgh's Heinz Memorial Chapel and the Cathedral of Learning.

Designed by architect Benno Janssen (1874–1964), it is noted for its neo-classical architecture and elegant construction, with its signature monolithic limestone columns (the largest monolithic columns in the world). Andrew Mellon, who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury, specified to Janssen a building with a monumental ionic colonnade similar to the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.. The proportions of Mellon Institute's street facades are nearly those of the long lateral facade of the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Mellon Institute was completed and dedicated posthumously to the Mellon brothers in May 1937.

Mellon Institute currently houses the Office of the Dean for Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science, as well as the administrative offices and research laboratories for the Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Chemistry. From 1986 until 2006, it also housed the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

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History

The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was first established as a department at the neighboring University of Pittsburgh. It conducted research for firms on a contractual basis; a company would contract the institute to solve a specific problem, and the institute would then hire an appropriate scientist to do the research. The results of the research then became the property of the contracting company.

In 1927, the institute was incorporated as a nonprofit, independent research center and planning for a new Mellon Institute building began that same year. When completed in 1937, the institute moved into its new building which sat directly across from the newly completed Cathedral of Learning, and handed its original facility, now known as Allen Hall, back to the University of Pittsburgh.

In 1967, declining use of independent research institutes for the outsourcing of corporate industrial research led Mellon Institute to merge with the Carnegie Institute of Technology to form Carnegie Mellon University. The "Carnegie Institute of Technology" name was retained to refer to the engineering portion of Carnegie Mellon's "College of Engineering and Science".

For decades the columns of the Mellon Institute building have served as a popular background for photographers shooting Pittsburgh wedding parties.

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References

  1. ^ "Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation: PHLF Plaques & Registries". 2007-01-27. Archived from the original on 2007-01-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20070127092030/http://www.phlf.org/plaques/locallist.html. Retrieved 2009-07-11. 
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-09. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  • Fenton, Edwin (2000). Carnegie Mellon 1900-2000: A Centennial History. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 0-88748-323-2. 

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