For those looking at Pittsburgh ‘hygge’/’gemuchlichkeit’ …
The Cathedral of Learning:
en.wikipedia.org
tour.pitt.edu
Other buildings on the same 14 acre plot are:
Stephen Foster Memorial
en.wikipedia.org
(It looks like the Stephen Foster sculture was taken down:
en.wikipedia.org
post-gazette.com
)
Heinz Chapel
en.wikipedia.org
heinzchapel.pitt.edu
And the Log Cabin:
en.wikipedia.org
tour.pitt.edu
Across the Forbes Avenue to the south is Carnegie Museum
And Schenley Plaza
en.wikipedia.org
The “Dirty ‘O’” in Oakland mentioned earlier is several blocks west along Forbes Avenue.
theoriginalhotdogshop.com
Regarding the Nationality rooms in the Cathedral of Learning, here is some more information:
And here are the rooms.
(There is a short 2-3 minute video linked to the label of each room picture.)
Happy might find the Irish Room of interest. I must note that the door frame is fairly low. I had a class in it one time, and being tall, I smacked my head on the door frame more than once. It may have added to my dislike of the class.
Interesting note:
The last 30 seconds of this Movie clip were filmed in Schenley Plaza at the Carnegie Museum:
Edit - I was still editing this when it posted, not sure why. So I had to go back in and clean it up