Edgar J. Kaufmann
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Edgar Jonas Kaufmann was an American businessman and philanthropist who owned and directed Kaufmann's Department Store, in Pittsburgh. He is also known for commissioning two modern architectural masterpieces, Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, designed by Richard Neutra.
Fallingwater, 2013
Kaufmann Desert House, 2017
Shady Side Academy
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Shady Side Academy is an independent preparatory school Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania in Greater Pittsburgh. Founded in 1883 as an all-male night school in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the academy now offers a secular coeducational PK–12 program on four campuses in the city and its suburbs, including a boarding program in the Croft and Morewood Houses of its Senior School Campus.
The first Shady Side Academy building: a one-room red brick schoolhouse in the Shadyside neighborhood, 1883
Rowe Hall, the LEED-certified main academic and administrative building of the Senior School campus
David McCullough '51, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
Jonathan Zittrain '87, professor at Harvard Law School