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David Lawrence Hall is one of the primary facilities of the University Of Pittsburgh and includes the university’s largest lecture facility.

Commonly known locally as Pitt, the University of Pittsburgh is a state-related research university that began in 1787. The university is comprised of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools located in various buildings in the city’s Oakland neighborhood — effectively making it Pitt’s campus.

The building is named in honor of David L. Lawrence (1889-1966), who served as mayor of Pittsburgh from 1946 to 1959 and governor of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1963. This accomplished leader was an early environmentalist who enacted a plan to clean-up Pittsburgh’s infamously polluted air and later played key roles in the presidential nominations of Franklin D Roosevelt (1882-1945) and John F Kennedy (1917-1963). Many historians also credit him as a protagonist encouraging the Democratic Party to be more involved in the Civil Rights causes of the 1960s.

Completed in 1968, the concrete contemporary building is used for Pitt’s social sciences classes and features an impressive, 998-seat auditorium that can be used for a variety of programs.

STANDARD HOURS:
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PARKING:
The university has a variety of parking facilities.

PORT AUTHORITY ROUTES:
71A–71B–71C–71D–75–P3

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3942 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 United States