Henry Hornbostel
From Sketches, Serious and Otherwise: Men of Pittsburgh and Vicinity, by W. S. Washburn.
Henry Hornbostel is more responsible than any other architect for the way Pittsburgh looks today. To justify that statement, we need only offer the abbreviated list of some of his works below (the full list would include more than a hundred buildings in the Pittsburgh area alone). That will be enough. A much fuller biography will be published here soon, but the list tells much of the story.
Forbes Avenue entrance to the Schenley Apartments (now Schenley Quad), Oakland
Aluminum Research Laboratories, New Kensington, 1929–1930
Boathouse, North Park, 1936
Carnegie-Mellon campus, Squirrel Hill, 1904
City-County Building, Downtown, 1915–1917
Congregation B’nai Israel, East Liberty, 1923–1927
Eugene B. Strassburger House, Squirrel Hill, 1928–1930
Filtration Plant, North Park, 1935 (possibly Hornbostel’s)
Friedman House, Squirrel Hill North, 1925
German Evangelical Protestant Church, Downtown, 1925–1926
Golf Clubhouse, North Park, 1937
Golf Clubhouse, South Park, 1938
Grant Building, Downtown, 1927–1930
Holy Rosary Convent, Homewood South, 1921
Holy Rosary School, Homewood South, 1912
House at 6400 Aylesboro Avenue, Squirrel Hill North, 1920s
Joyce Kilmer Memorial, South Park, 1934
Ledge House, Schenley Farms, 1909
Mineral Industries Hall, North Oakland, 1912
Morris Friedman House, Squirrel Hill, 1925
Morris Jaffe House, Squirrel Hill, 1925
Pennsylvania Hall, North Oakland, 1910
Rodef Shalom Temple, Shadyside, 1906
Schenley Apartments, Oakland, 1922
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, Oakland
U. S. Bureau of Mines, Oakland, 1915–1917
University Club, Oakland, 1922–1923
Valley Tower, Monroeville, 1939
Webster Hall, Oakland,
Westinghouse Memorial, Schenley Park, 1930
William M. Hall House, Squirrel Hill, 1924
Soldiers and Sailors Hall, Oakland
