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===Mulert Memorial Room=== [[File:MulertMemorialRoomCoL.jpg|thumb|left|Mulert Memorial Room]] Located in room 204, the walnut-paneled Mulert Memorial classroom was designed by Philadelphia architect Gustav Ketterer and university architect Albert Klimcheck.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RncbAAAAIBAJ&pg=3017%2C2787625|title=Memorial Room is Dedicated in Pitt Ceremony|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|page=27|date=December 22, 1942|access-date=August 22, 2014}}</ref> The room features wood floors, fluted [[ionic column]]s, red velvet draperies, and student chairs with leather seats.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cidde.pitt.edu/classrooms/cl_204.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710035823/http://www.cidde.pitt.edu//classrooms/cl_204.html|archive-date=July 10, 2010 |title=Media Enhanced Classrooms: Cathedral of Learning - Room 204 | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education | access-date=August 22, 2014}}</ref> The room's doors have fluted jams and panelings of Greek rosettes. A Mulert family coat-of-arms and memorial inscription is located on the rear wall of the room.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittalumni;idno=31735062122431;seq=12|first=Lotte Olga|last=Lohstoeter|title=The Justus Mulert Memorial Room|journal=The Alumni Review|date=March 1943|page=10|access-date=August 22, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210060544/http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittalumni%3Bidno%3D31735062122431%3Bseq%3D12|archive-date=February 10, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The room was provided for in the will of the late [[Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania|Mt. Lebanon]] resident Justus Mulert, the room was dedicated on December 21, 1942, and serves as a memorial to Mulert's wife, Louise and his son Ferdinand Max, who died in 1912 during his senior year at [[Washington and Jefferson College]].<ref>{{Cite news | title=Pitt Dedicates Mulert Room | newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=December 22, 1942 | page=12 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19421222&id=PuUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5424,2166468 | access-date=May 26, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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