The Urinals of Carnegie Mellon University

"Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, [PA]. It began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The University’s 140-acre main campus is three miles from Downtown Pittsburgh and abuts the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the city's Oakland neighborhood."

This picture was sent in by JH. He writes: "The impressive Mellon Institute building is literally half a block, and across Fifth Avenue, from Clapp Hall [at University of Pittsburgh]. Andrew Mellon donated the funds for its construction and was present at the groundbreaking in the spring of 1937, his last public appearance. Each of the three-story colums is a single piece of Indiana limestone. Unverified legend has it that when Mellon was told that it was impossible to cut single-piece columns of those dimensions, he bought the quarry. The third-floor men's room looks like it could be from a swank fern bar somewhere. The original yellow porcelain was unfortunately recently removed (damn!), but the black glass walls, that make this shot difficult, are original."