Shannon Hall (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) | dormitory, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1921_construction

 dormitory, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1921_construction

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The former Try Street Terminal Building is now Shannon Hall, which houses about 650 students of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. From the early 1920s, the building was the central warehouse for the Keystone Grocery and Tea Company, a small grocery store chain. Bordering on the south and west were the B&O and the Pennsylvania Railroads respectively. Following the repeal of Prohibition, the 9-story structure became the distribution center for state liquor stores in Western Pennsylvania, remaining in this capacity at least into the 1940s. For roughly the latter half of the 20th century, the Union Real Estate Company operated the building as multi-tenant warehousing whose last major tenant was American Thermoplastics. The structure had deteriorated badly by 2005 when it was purchased for renovation and conversion into housing.