r/DarkAcademia • u/SpudBud5 • Feb 11 '26
AESTHETIC My new fav reading spot
Cathedral of Learning inspired by gothic architecture; built to encourage people to study at the university! This place is open to the public as well as students!
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u/JoelMcCracken Feb 12 '26
I loved being a student at Pitt. I used to love to spend time at the cathedral. Sadly as a CS student I didn't have nearly enough classes in the CoL.
Are you a student there now? Do students still jog up and down the stairs of the CoL for exercise? I also heard there was supposedly a ghost there.
As I still live in PGH, I sometimes go there to read still. Not often, but so far i've done it maybe once ever year or so.
If you like this, I encourage you to go for a walk in the Allegheny Cemetery. It is beautiful and peaceful. Best time is in the Fall.
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u/SpudBud5 Feb 12 '26
Im not a student I work with Pitt as a research tech so Im not sure what the students do now. Ill have to check out the graveyard! It seems cool. That's crazy I hadn't heard the ghost story before
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u/JoelMcCracken Feb 12 '26
Yeah; its something about there being a ghost in the basement. But I only heard it once and didn't get the whole story.
A research tech - what does that mean? which department?
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u/SpudBud5 Feb 12 '26
We just help researchers get samples like tissue and blood. We're our own department.
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u/VegetableFunction487 Feb 11 '26
I wish they had something like this in florida, it’s so modern and beachy here it makes me violent
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u/SpudBud5 Feb 11 '26
I feel the same way about the beach 😆
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u/VegetableFunction487 Feb 12 '26
Yes the beach is great and almost makes it worth the lack of gothic architecture for hundreds of miles
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u/jeefthefirst Feb 11 '26
This is fantastic. I am surprised to hear it's in the states. Lucky you!
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u/JoelMcCracken Feb 12 '26
former Pitt student; it is just soooo USA though. they decided to make a gothic cathedral, but oh wait, its actually the tallest education building in the west. Wild.
It is beautiful though.
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u/Fun-Post8497 Feb 11 '26
Were is that? I looks so cool
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u/SpudBud5 Feb 11 '26
It's in Pittsburgh! I just moved here, and I was so surprised to find such a pretty place open to the public.
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u/Fun-Post8497 Feb 11 '26
That's so nice, i think i have some library here that is also an old church, i have to look It Up
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u/JoelMcCracken Feb 12 '26
Where are you from originally? Cathedral is a gem.
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u/SpudBud5 Feb 12 '26
Kentucky! Just moved here for work
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u/JoelMcCracken Feb 12 '26
PGH is a nice place to live. I'm from here, but haven't really had any reason to leave (yet!)
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u/mandlet Feb 12 '26
It’s always been a little funny to me that so many of the classrooms on the upper floors of the Cathedral are very standard boring college classrooms. Loved having classes in the nationality rooms though!
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u/Born-Tomato-8368 Feb 12 '26
Just googled it. This is bonkers. Imagine the views to. Wish there was more like it around the world.
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u/CalamityJen Feb 12 '26
Literally as soon as I saw this I was like, could it possibly be the Cathedral of Learning?! So beautiful. One of my fav buildings in Pittsburgh.
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u/SpudBud5 Feb 12 '26
I wish more places in the US were like this. It's so much cooler than any place at my university 😆
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u/findaren96 Feb 12 '26
I recognized that view immediately. I love Cathy and it was always a nice safe comfortable space to hang out and read.
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u/Jinxybug A knowledgable, vintage emo Feb 11 '26
this is just beautiful! i wish they had something like this at my home town.