{"id":293977,"date":"2026-09-25T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293977\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:22:07","slug":"the-cathedral-of-learning-100-years-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293977\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cathedral of Learning: 100 Years \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Cathedral of Learning is turning 100 years old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Workers broke ground for the historic building on the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s campus on September 27, 1926.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Cathedral is on Pitt\u2019s campus, but it\u2019s really a building for the people. The funds to build the landmark came from corporate and private donations, including a fundraiser for kids to donate 10 cents. Immigrant groups also funded the very popular Nationality Rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Cathedral of Learning is the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere and serves as classrooms, study spaces, university departments and a home to Peregrine Falcons, Carla and Ecco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Learn more about why it took so long to build the Cathedral and about the Nationality Rooms and the historic Honors College on a WPXI Special: The Cathedral: 100 Years Old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It airs Sunday at 8 a.m.on WPXI and our WPXI Now streaming apps, and will also be on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/\">wpxi.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WPXI11News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WPXI11News\">WPXI\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Cathedral of Learning is turning 100 years old. Workers broke ground for the historic building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61560,14181,121720,73,75,74,121721,2553],"class_list":["post-293977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-100th-anniversary","tag-cathedral-of-learning","tag-nationality-rooms","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-tallest-educational-building-in-the-western-hemisphere","tag-university-of-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}