re: #20 ckkatz

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

en.wikipedia.org

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:

nationalityrooms.pitt.edu

And here are the rooms.
(There is a short 2-3 minute video linked to the label of each room picture.)

nationalityrooms.pitt.edu
I really want to explore more of Pittsburgh now that I know where my dad’s parents grew up? His dad’s grandfather had a blacksmith shop in Deutschtown. His mom’s grandfather’s father owned a tavern in Ross and there’s even a census designated place named after him there.
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.

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Edit - I was still editing this when it posted, not sure why. So I had to go back in and clean it up