Union Station II

Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Location: Downtown, Union Station

Union Station was designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, but the fine details of the building were left to the many draftsmen led by Peter Weber. The station connected the Pennsylvania Railroad with several subsidiary lines. Construction started in 1898 and was completed in 1903; in the mid 1980's the building was converted into apartrments and commercial space. The building's rotunda with corner pavilians, one of which is seen here, is what immediately grabs everyone's attention.

As has occured to me many times photographing in downtown Pittsburgh since 9/11, a private security guard asked me to leave when he saw me taking pictures. In this instance I had no choice but to comply since the rotunda is on private property. I would think a terrorist would be far more likely to use a miniature spy camera than a large 35mm attention grabbing setup with a tripod. Alternatively, they could forget the whole camera thing and just use Google!