Thackeray Hall is an academic building of the

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and a

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to the Schenley Farms National Historic District

at 139 University Place on the campus of the

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh,

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Thackeray Hall houses Pitt's Department of Mathematics. Previously, it housed the Mathematics Library in room 430, whose collection is now located in the Bevier Engineering Library of

Benedum Hall Michael L. Benedum Hall of Engineering is a landmark academic building on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The building was designed in the brutalist style by the architectural firm of Dee ...

. On the ground floor are many university student services: class registration, tuition billing, and transcripts, as well as housing the Advising Center of the School of Arts and Sciences on the second floo

The building is the forme
National Union Fire Insurance Company
building built circa 1923–1925 in the Early Classical style. The building was purchased by the university in 1968 for $1.875 million ($ in dollars), and was originally purposed for faculty offices. It was known as the Social Sciences Building until 1972 when it was renamed Mervis Hall and designated as the home of the Joseph M. Katz School of Business, Graduate School of Businessbr>
In 1983, when the Joseph M. Katz School of Business, Graduate School of Business moved into a new building also named

Mervis Hall Mervis Hall is an academic building at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States that houses the Joseph M. Katz School of Business, Katz Graduate School of Business and University of Pittsbu ...

, it was renamed Thackeray Hall.

References

External links

Thackeray Hall on Pitt's virtual Campus Tour

Department of Mathematics

School of Arts & Sciences Advising
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