Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Pittsburgh/On this day/September 2
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- (1854) The cornerstone is laid for a sixteen-room building in downtown Pittsburgh, at the site of the present day City-County Building, that would serve as the university's main facility from 1854 to 1882.