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==Other notable spaces==
[[File:BabcockRoomCoL 8234831057.jpg|thumb|upright|right|150px|Dedication panel of the Babcock Memorial Room]]
There are several other notable facilities and rooms within the Cathedral of Learning. In addition, these spaces do not fall under the auspices of the Nationality Rooms program.

===Babcock Room===
The [[Edward V. Babcock]] Memorial Room is a plush, carpeted, wood-paneled conference room constructed on the 40th floor for use as the university [[trustee|trustees']] [[boardroom]]. Funded by a Babcock family grant of $327,000 (${{formatprice|{{Inflation|US|327000|1958}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars{{inflation-fn|US}}) and dedicated in November 1958,<ref name="Alberts1986"/> all of the room's features are original, except for the lighting, furniture and carpeting.<ref name="TPNBabcock">{{cite news | url=http://pittnews.com/newsstory/top-of-cathedral-offers-rooms-great-view/ | first=Keith| last=Gillogly | title=Top of Cathedral offers rooms, great view | newspaper=The Pitt News | location=Pittsburgh, PA | date=February 28, 2011 | access-date=March 1, 2011}}</ref> The room's square shape is modified by four alcoves, in one of which is a portrait of Babcock by [[Malcolm Stevens Parcell]]. The walls, featuring intricate geometric patterns, are paneled in Appalachian [[Quercus macrocarpa|white oak]] with burled [[walnut]] inlays and touches of [[rosewood]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.pfaffmann.com/documents/PittCivicCenterConservation%20Plan_2006.pdf | title=University of Pittsburgh Civic Center Conservation Plan | date=September 2005 | page=62 | last=Pfaffmann | first=Rob | publisher=Pfaffmann + Associates, PC and the Getty Foundation Campus Heritage Program | access-date=January 27, 2010}}</ref> The windows, adorned by leaf-patterned curtains, boast a spectacular panoramic view of the surrounding area.<ref name="TPNBabcock"/><ref name="Holohan">{{cite web|url=http://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/fall2003/feature4.html|title=Standing Tall|last=Holohan|first=Meghan|date=Fall 2003|publisher=Pitt Magazine|access-date=August 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616065342/http://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/fall2003/feature4.html|archive-date=June 16, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The room is also adjoined by a kitchen.<ref name="UTBabcock">{{cite news|url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=27 |title=Secrets of the Cathedral: Starting at the top |newspaper=University Times |publisher=University of Pittsburgh |location=Pittsburgh, PA |volume=36 |number=2 |access-date=August 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720033411/http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=27 |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Access to the room is limited to a spiral staircase and an elevator, both requiring a key, that originate on the 36th floor.<ref name="UTBabcock"/> During the early 1970s at the height of [[student activism]], a group of protesting students attempted to barricade the room during a trustees meeting.<ref name="Alberts1986"/><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=1895| title=Remembering Wes: Friends, family, former colleagues reminisce|first=William H. | last=Rea | newspaper=University Times | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | location=Pittsburgh, PA | volume=34 | number=1 | access-date=August 1, 2010}}</ref> Today, the trustees have outgrown the room and generally meet in the Assembly Room of the [[William Pitt Union]]. The Babcock room now serves as a seminar and meeting room and is also used for special events.<ref name="TPNBabcock"/> A pair of [[peregrine falcons]] nests on the balcony outside the room.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=6488 | title=For the birds | newspaper=University Times | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | location=Pittsburgh, PA | volume=40 | number=19 | date=May 29, 2008 | access-date=August 1, 2010}}</ref>

===Braun Room===
[[Image:CoL Braun Room.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Braun Room in the Cathedral of Learning]]
Following the opening of the Cathedral of Learning, the offices of the Dean of Women moved to the 12th floor of the Cathedral in 1938. The interior was unfinished but Dean [[Thyrsa Amos]] envisioned a dignified and beautiful space for women to meet.

When Dean Amos died in 1941, the new quarters were still unfinished. The Alumnae Association created the Thyrsa W. Amos Fund to plaster the walls and to furnish Room 1217 in her name. Room 1217 was never finished, but after World War II the other rooms on the twelfth floor were completed including room 1201, now known as the Braun Room. Mrs. A. E. Braun donated the furnishings and floral carved [[mahogany]] wood paneling which she had purchased in 1941 from the library of the home of Grant McCargo in the East End of Pittsburgh. The Braun Room was dedicated in 1946 and serves, along with its furniture, as an example of a modern reproduction of [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] design. Original blue carpeting was replaced in 1955 with a Persian rug, named "The Iron Rug of Persia", that was donated by the daughter and son-in-law of A. E. Braun. Restored in 2015, the rug was made for a regional [[Khan (title)|Khan]] in the northern part of Iran around 1810.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Fall%202015%20%28Newsletter%29%20Nov%2010_0.pdf|title=Nationality Rooms Program Activities|first=Maryann|last=Sivak|journal=Nationality Rooms Newsletter|date=Fall 2015|volume=98|page=7|access-date=November 15, 2015}}</ref> Other features of the room include a low bookcase, bordered and topped with classic carving, that was crafted by university carpenters to replace the original fireplace whose inclusion was impractical on the 12th floor, along with two crystal drop chandeliers.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.pfaffmann.com/documents/PittCivicCenterConservation%20Plan_2006.pdf | title=University of Pittsburgh Civic Center Conservation Plan | date=September 2005 | page=63 | last=Pfaffmann | first=Rob | publisher=Pfaffmann + Associates, PC and the Getty Foundation Campus Heritage Program | access-date=January 27, 2010}}</ref>

Dean Helen Pool Rush and her successor, Dean Savina Skewis, carried on the traditions of Dean Amos until the Dean of Women's Office was closed in 1969, and its functions and quarters were assumed by other departments.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.provost.pitt.edu/whistory/twelfth/twelfth.html|title=The Twelfth Floor|work=The History of Women at Pitt|publisher=Office of the Provost, [[University of Pittsburgh]]|access-date=August 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320071425/http://www.provost.pitt.edu/whistory/twelfth/twelfth.html|archive-date=March 20, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Braun Room is used for meetings and study abroad scholarship selection panels.

===Croghan-Schenley Ballroom===
[[Image:CoL Croghan-Schenley Ballroom.jpg|left|thumb|Croghan-Schenley Ballroom in the Cathedral of Learning]]
The Croghan-Schenley room, situated on the first floor of the Cathedral in room 156, is actually two adjoining [[Greek Revival]] rooms, the Ballroom and the Oval Room, connected by a hidden passageway in the Ballroom's fireplace. The rooms were originally part of William Croghan Jr.'s mansion, known as the Picnic House, built in 1830 in the [[Stanton Heights]] area of Pittsburgh. The rooms themselves were created in 1835 by the Philadelphia carver Mordecai Van Horn, and they have been regarded as being among the most lavish examples of Greek Revival designs in America.<ref name="TokerNewPortrait"/>

His daughter, [[Mary Schenley|Mary Elizabeth]], went to boarding school in New York, but in 1842 at the age of fifteen she eloped with 43-year-old Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley, a captain in the British military. The elopement caused a family schism. Mary would not visit often, and in an effort to convince her to move back to Pittsburgh, the new rooms were commissioned. Following the death of William Croghan in 1850, the mansion was run by caretakers with no permanent residents for some 60 years. William S. Miller, then president of Steelwood Corp., purchased the Croghan mansion following [[World War II]] and it was soon leveled for a new housing development, but the Croghan-Schenley rooms were spared.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_EkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA122|title=Life Visits a Haunted House|magazine=LIFE|pages=122–125|date=June 11, 1945|access-date=May 26, 2014}}</ref>

In 1955, the rooms, donated by Miller, were dismantled and rebuilt in the cathedral, except that the original ceilings had to be lowered about 8&nbsp;inches to accommodate the available space.

In 1982, the rooms were refurbished to their 19th century glory. Highlighting the ballroom are the hand-cut glass chandelier and four wooden, hand-carved Greek columns, surviving examples of western Pennsylvania's Greek classical revival period popular with those of means in the 1830s.

The Croghan-Schenley rooms are the last extant vestiges of the estate of [[Mary Schenley]], who before she died gave much of her holdings and property to the city of Pittsburgh—including Schenley farms, where the Cathedral sits, and [[Schenley Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db%3Dustory%26-lay%3Da%26-format%3Dd.html%26storyid%3D1676%26-Find |title=Secrets of the Cathedral: The Commons Room |website=mac10.umc.pitt.edu |publisher=[[University Times]] (University of Pittsburgh) |access-date=June 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720050412/http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=1676&-Find |archive-date=July 20, 2007 }}</ref>

[[Image:CathedralLecture324.jpg|right|thumb|The Frick Auditorium]]
Stories tell of a ghost, speculated to be that of Mary Schenley, that is said to roam the Ballroom and Nationality Rooms. The doors to the rooms are locked every night, but furniture is sometimes said to be found rearranged by daylight staff. The swinging of the chandelier has been said to indicate her presence.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://pittnews.com/newsstory/could-your-university-be-full-of-spooky-spirits/|title=Could your University be full of spooky spirits?|first=Greg|last=Heller-LaBelle|date=May 11, 2006|newspaper=The Pitt News|location=Pittsburgh, PA|access-date=August 1, 2011}}</ref><ref name="haunt">{{cite web|url=http://hauntsandhistory.googlepages.com/threerivershauntsandhistoryc|title=Three Rivers Haunts & History|page=8|access-date=November 25, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09060/952235-109.stm|first=Gene|last=Scott|title=The Next Page: Mansion of Ironies|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|location=Pittsburgh, PA|date=March 1, 2009|access-date=August 1, 2011}}</ref>

===Frick Auditorium===
The Frick Auditorium is a lecture hall in room 324 of the Cathedral of Learning. Originally conceptualized as the Fine Arts Lecture Room intended to complement the Fine Arts Department then located on the seventh floor,<ref>{{cite book|title=Planning the Pitt Campus: Dreams and Schemes Never Realized|chapter=A Different Approach: the Arts and Crafts Village|first=Jeannine|last=Gibel-Lukens|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|date=November 5, 1993}}</ref> the room was completed in 1939<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?xc=1;g=documentingpitt;didno=31735062128347;idno=31735062128347;view=image;seq=50|journal=Pitt|title=Documenting Pitt|number=27|date=Winter 1947|page=48|access-date=April 12, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210060544/http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?xc=1%3Bg%3Ddocumentingpitt%3Bdidno%3D31735062128347%3Bidno%3D31735062128347%3Bview%3Dimage%3Bseq%3D50|archive-date=February 10, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and features stone [[mullions]], [[chambranle]], and other trim as well as wooden lecture seating and a [[coffer]]ed ceiling. A centerpiece element in the room is a Nicholas Lochoff reproduction of ''[[Resurrection (Piero della Francesca)|The Resurrection]]'' by [[Piero della Francesca]] that was purchased for the lecture hall by [[Helen Clay Frick]]. Frick would later donate a large collection of Lochoff reproductions to the university which are on display in the Nicholas Lochoff Cloister in the university's [[Frick Fine Arts Building]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.haa.pitt.edu/resources/documents/ffab.pdf |title=Frick Fine Arts Building & The Nicholas Lochoff Cloister |journal=Frick Fine Arts Library Library Guide Series |issue=25 |date=August 15, 2006 |access-date=November 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627200101/http://www.haa.pitt.edu/resources/documents/ffab.pdf |archive-date=June 27, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref>

===Humanities Center===
[[File:HumanitiesCenterPitt.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Entrance to the Humanities Center]]
The University of Pittsburgh's Humanities Center, part of [[University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences|School of Arts and Sciences]], is housed in the Cathedral of Learning's room 602, which was a sixth-floor space once occupied by the [[Darlington Collection|Darlington Memorial Library]]. Following digitization and protective storage of the library's materials, its space was renovated in 2009 by architect Rob Pfaffmann to house the center, which now includes office space for staff and visiting fellows.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=4530 | title=Pitt's New Humanities Center To Foster Collaborative Work | first=Patricia Lomando | last=White | date=January 19, 2010 | newspaper=Pitt Chronicle | location=Pittsburgh, PA | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | access-date=January 20, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617023913/http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=4530 | archive-date=June 17, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> The Humanities Center space retains much of the original character and a number of the antique furnishings originally bequeathed to the university by the Darlington family, and features moldings and green walls that are duplicated from the 18th mansion [[Graeme Park]], a [[Province of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania colonial-era]] governor's residence.<ref name="DLibStarret">{{cite book | url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pitttext;cc=pitttext;rgn=full%20text;idno=00adg0067m;didno=00adg0067m;view=image;seq=13;node=00adg0067m%3A4;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset; | title=The Darlington Memorial Library | first=Agnes Lynch | last=Starret | page=3 | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | location=Pittsburgh, PA | year=1938 | access-date=November 18, 2009}}</ref> The Center for Humanities was finished in time for an open house that was part a conference hosted by the center on November 14–15, 2009.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=10412 | title= Humanities Center hosts inaugural conference | newspaper=University Times | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | location=Pittsburgh, PA | date=November 12, 2009 | access-date=November 18, 2009}}</ref>

[[File:HumanitiesCenterCoL.jpg|thumb|left|Humanities Center]]
The space served as the home of The Darlington Memorial Library from 1936 until its recent conversion to the Humanities Center.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu:80/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittchancellor;cc=pittchancellor;g=documentingpitt;xc=1;xg=1;rgn=full%20text;idno=1934e36913;didno=1934e36913;view=image;seq=98;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813104245/http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittchancellor%3Bcc%3Dpittchancellor%3Bg%3Ddocumentingpitt%3Bxc%3D1%3Bxg%3D1%3Brgn%3Dfull%20text%3Bidno%3D1934e36913%3Bdidno%3D1934e36913%3Bview%3Dimage%3Bseq%3D98%3Bpage%3Droot%3Bsize%3Ds%3Bfrm%3Dframeset |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 13, 2012 |pages=95–96 |title=Report of the Chancellor to the Trustees July 1, 1934, to June 30, 1936 |date=October 15, 1936 |volume=33 |issue=2 |journal=University of Pittsburgh Bulletin |access-date=November 18, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The library was entered through a memorial vestibule and consisted of a central room with eight alcoves. Among other notable furnishings, it contained a wrought iron entrance gate by [[Samuel Yellin]].<ref name="DLibStarret" /> The library was given to the University of Pittsburgh by the daughters of William McCullough Darlington and Mary Carson Darlington. The initial gift of eleven thousand volumes was made in 1918 by Mary O'Hara Darlington and [[Edith Darlington Ammon]]. This was followed by Mary O'Hara Darlington's bequest in 1925 of the remainder of the family's library and much of the family estate. The Darlington family's tremendous interest in historical research was the force behind creating what was said to be the largest private library west of the Alleghenies. The library collection is particularly rich in material about the [[French and Indian War]] and the history of [[Western Pennsylvania]] and the [[Ohio River|Ohio Valley]], as both William and Mary Darlington researched and published in these areas. While the collection's main focus is on American history and literature, other collection highlights include rare maps and atlases, works on [[ornithology]] and natural history, and early travel narratives. The Darlington's son, O'Hara Darlington, also amassed collections of [[Victorian literature]] sporting books and works of illustrators and caricaturists. The collection also has been enriched over the years by donations from other individuals and organizations, which especially have enhanced its content about the history of the Western Pennsylvania region.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/darlington/darlington.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410223528/http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/darlington/darlington.html | title=Darlington Memorial Library | archive-date=April 10, 2008 | access-date=November 18, 2009}}</ref>

Before renovation of the original library space, its materials were digitized and placed online at The Darlington Digital Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/d/darlington/ | title=The Darlington Digital Library | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | access-date=November 18, 2009}}</ref> The original, sometimes fragile, materials of the library were placed in storage for availability to researchers upon request.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=8825&-Find |title=What's New? Places |last1=Hart |first1=Peter |last2=Barlow |first2=Kimberly K. |newspaper=University Times |publisher=University of Pittsburgh |location=Pittsburgh, PA |date=September 3, 2009 |access-date=September 8, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609205248/http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=8825&-Find |archive-date=June 9, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> A virtual tour of the Darlington Memorial Library as it previously existed in the Cathedral of Learning is available at the main entrance<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.pitt.edu/images/tours/darlington.mov|title=Darlington Memorial Library main entrance virtual tour|access-date=August 2, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520032719/http://www.library.pitt.edu/images/tours/darlington.mov|archive-date=May 20, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and the main room.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.pitt.edu/images/tours/maindarlington.mov|title=Darlington Memorial Library main room virtual tour|access-date=August 2, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520032836/http://www.library.pitt.edu/images/tours/maindarlington.mov|archive-date=May 20, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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===Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and GSWS program space===
[[File:CGSatPitt.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Former McCarl Center]]
Located on the fourth floor of the Cathedral of Learning, the current home of both the Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies (GSWS) programs,<ref name="GSWS news">{{cite journal|url=http://www.wstudies.pitt.edu/news/gsws-programs-new-home-cathedral-learning|first=K. Briar|last=Somerville|title=GSWS Program's New Home in the Cathedral of Learning|issue=2|date=Summer 2015|journal=Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies Program|access-date=October 12, 2015}}</ref> was the prior home of the McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success until it moved to [[Wesley W. Posvar Hall]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=27002|first1=Kimberly K.|last1=Barlow|first2=Marty|last2=Levine|title=What's New at Pitt: Places|newspaper=University Times|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|location=Pittsburgh, PA|date=August 29, 2013|volume=46|number=1|access-date=September 12, 2013}}</ref> The space occupies what once housed two levels of the main stacks of the university's library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stradallc.com/show_project.php?37|title=Strada - McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success|publisher=Strada, LLC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201050159/http://www.stradallc.com/show_project.php?37|archive-date=February 1, 2008 |access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> The {{convert|2500|sqft|m2|adj=on}} space was previously opened as the $537,000 McCarl Center in 2002.<ref name="About McCarl">{{cite web|url=http://www.cgspitt.org/about-the-mccarl-center.cfm|title=About the McCarl Center|publisher=College of General Studies, [[University of Pittsburgh]]|access-date=August 2, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725154349/http://www.cgspitt.org/about-the-mccarl-center.cfm|archive-date=July 25, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Made possible by a gift from F. James and Foster J.J. McCarl,<ref name="About McCarl"/> it was designed by Alan J. Cuteri and his architectural firm Strada, LLC, and includes wood finishes, double-height spaces with high ceilings and windows, a main corridor conceived as an interior street, and multiple elements that refer to the Cathedral of Learning's Gothic architecture including decorative painted metal columns with contemporary buttress-style arches.<ref name = "McCarl"/> Today the space includes a resource library, offices, and seminar room, and class room that are used by the Cultural Studies and GSWS programs.<ref name="GSWS news"/> Students in gender studies classes have access to the gender studies library, which houses classic and recent books on gender/sexuality, and to two gender studies classrooms. The GSWS faculty offices are also nearby. Also hanging in a hallway on the fourth floor outside the space, three unsigned and undated {{convert|7|by|3|ft|m|adj=on|1}} glass-encased murals that depict [[Renaissance]] painting styles and which have long belonged to the university but are of unknown origin.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=28 | title=Secrets of the Cathedral: From 38 on down | date=September 11, 2003 | volume=36 | number=2 | newspaper=University Times | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | access-date=August 1, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720033405/http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=28 | archive-date=July 20, 2011 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

===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>

===Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre===
[[File:CathedraloL blackbox.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Studio Theatre]]
The Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre, a facility utilized by the [[University of Pittsburgh Stages|Department of Theatre Arts]], is located in the basement of the cathedral. The Rauh Studio Theatre is a [[black box theater|black box space]] that can be configured for almost any set requirements. It is home to student-directed laboratory productions, play readings, Dark Night Cabaret, and played host to Pittsburgh's longest-running theatre show, [[Friday Nite Improvs]], started in 1989 by graduate theatre students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.play.pitt.edu/about/facilities.html |title=Performance Spaces |publisher=Department of Theatre Arts, [[University of Pittsburgh]] |access-date=August 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091202052852/http://www.play.pitt.edu/about/facilities.html |archive-date=December 2, 2009 |df=mdy }}</ref> In 2017 the Studio Theatre was named in honor of Pitt alumnus Richard E. Raugh who donated $1 million to support it and the university's theater productions.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.pittwire.pitt.edu/news/alumnus-gifts-1-million|title=Alumnus Gifts $1 Million to Theatre Arts|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|date=July 28, 2017|access-date=July 28, 2017}}</ref>

===Frederick Honors College===
[[File:Pitt Honors College staircase.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Staircase between the 35th and 36th floors of the Frederick Honors College.]]
The Frederick Honors College, dedicated in 1986, is housed in a 2002-2003 renovated space on the 35th and 36th floors of the cathedral. The Frederick Honors College provides support and enriched opportunities for scholarship among the university's undergraduates and offers a Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil) degree.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/|title=University Honors College|publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh]]|access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref>

The 2002-2003 renovation, by Rothschild Doyno Collaborative of Pittsburgh's Strip District, showcased an existing two-story arched window that is visible at night for miles around. The four-leaf medieval [[quatrefoil]] medallion at the top of the cathedral is a central motif in the design of the Honors College. Stained glass behind the reception desk at the center of the space was designed by Glenn Greene Glass of Regent Square and centers on a design representing the four seasons, done in polished agate. Wrought ironwork was produced by Vic Reynaud of Technique Manufacturing in the spirit of [[Samuel Yellin]] who did the Commons Room ironwork.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/about/architecture.html |title=About UHC: Architecture |publisher=University Honors College, [[University of Pittsburgh]] |access-date=August 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609100834/http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/about/architecture.html |archive-date=June 9, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

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File:CathedralfromFrick.jpg|South face of the cathedral from the [[Frick Fine Arts Building]]
File:CathedralLawn1.jpg|The Cathedral Lawn to the east
File:Cathedral of Learning stitch 2.jpg|Cathedral and the [[Stephen Foster Memorial]] from across [[Schenley Plaza]]
File:CathoLearn.jpg|Northwest side of the cathedral from across the lawn of the [[Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial|Sailors and Soldiers Memorial]]
File:TopofCathedralofLearning.jpg|Detail of top floors on the western face
File:CathedralLearningEarlyevening.jpg|North face top floors
File:CathedralofLearninglookingup.jpg|Panther fountain on the west entrance
File:PittCathedralLearningfromHeinzChapel.jpg|East side
File:CathedralFromSouthSideSlopes.jpg|View from the South Side Slopes
File:CathedralofLearningLampDetail.jpg|[[Samuel Yellin]] ironwork lamp
File:CathedralofLearningentrance.jpg|South entrance detail
File:CathedralofLearningstoneworkDetail.jpg|Exterior quatrefoil stonework detail prior to 2007 cleaning
File:QuoVadisClassof1940Window.jpg|[[Charles Connick]] designed Class of 1940 Window in the Quo Vadis niche
File:Cathedralcloister.jpg|Lightwell containing the painted ceramic sculpture "Third Century" by Jerry Caplan
File:CathedralofLearning1stFloorArchwayDetail.jpg|Detail of Joseph Gattoni stonework on a first floor archway
File:Commons Room (Cathedral of Learning) - Pitt - IMG 0469.jpg|Detail of Commons Room furniture carvings
File:CoLCommonsRoom.jpg|Commons Room ceiling vaults
File:CommonsRoominCathedralofLearn.jpg|Commons Room
File:UpittCOL2.JPG|Commons Room
File:PittCathedralLearningWindows.jpg|Looking west from the Frederick Honors College
File:VictoryLightsPitt.jpg|Cathedral of Learning lit up with the victory lights
File:Forbes Field about 1963.jpg|Forbes Field about 1963 from Cathedral of Learning
File:Cathedral of Learning Daytime.jpg|Cathedral seen from [[Wesley W. Posvar Hall]]
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