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Henry Clay Frick hired D. H. Burnham and Company to design a 20 story office building which still bears his name more than 11 decades later.  The building dwarfed the Carnegie Steel building from a decade earlier, where Frick once worked in partnership with Andrew Carnegie.  Bronze doorknobs monogrammed with an F were installed throughout the building, and a few were even installed at Clayton, Frick's home in Pittsburgh's Point Breeze neighborhood. Burnham also designed the door hardware. Corbin made the hardware and offered it as Orvieto (M-16700andM16710)  on page 894 of the 1905 Corbin catalog. Click on each photo below to view additional images and information.

Specifications

School / Style
Emblematic
Manufacturer
P & F Corbin
Circa Dates
1901
Classification
Category P - P-700
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P-71120

About this record

“F Frick Building” (catalogue P-71120) is an antique doorknob recorded in the Public Buildings/Seals category (Category P, Single Letters) of the Antique Doorknob Collectors of America archive. It was made by P & F Corbin, circa 1901. The pattern belongs to the Emblematic school of ornament.

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