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Gulf Tower is one amongst the most important distinctive and recognizable options of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The tower is known as for the Gulf Oil Corporation, that was one amongst the leading transnational oil firms of its time, systematically ranking among the most important ten companies within the country. In 1984, Gulf and Chevron took half within the World’s largest merger ($13.3 billion or $29.8 billion today) to it time.
Built because the headquarters for the Gulf company, and called the Gulf Building, the structure was designed by the firm of Trowbridge & American Revolutionary leader and completed in 1932 at a value of $10.05 million ($139.8 million today). Currently known as Gulf Tower, it’s forty four floors and rises 177.4 m (582 ft) higher than Downtown Pittsburgh. The crown of the edifice is sculptural once the burial chamber of Halicarnassus within the kind of a step pyramid. The building was listed as a Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark in 1973.
On June 13, 1974, a bomb was detonated on the twenty ninth floor of the Gulf Tower. The Weather Underground Organization took credit for the attack claiming it had been in protest to Gulf Oil’s involvement within the oil made regions plagued by the Angolan War of Independence.
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