{"id":3665,"date":"2016-11-26T23:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2016-11-26T23:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T04:31:57","slug":"a-pittsburgh-urban-suprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/a-pittsburgh-urban-suprise\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pittsburgh “Urban” Suprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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October 28, 1929 advertisement for the Urban Room in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/p><\/div>\n

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While recently\u00a0attending a conference in Pittsburgh I received a very pleasant surprise. The site of the conference was the Omni William Penn Hotel, a historic downtown Pittsburgh hotel that first opened in 1916. The majority of the hotel\u00a0is typical nineteen-teens decor, with an ornate lobby and public spaces.<\/h4>\n

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The exterior of the William Penn Hotel, opened in 1916.<\/p><\/div>\n

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