Conover Building (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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Plaque reads:

This six-story commercial loft was built by Alfred Gilliland for Levi Wade in 1892. Architect James T. Steen, designer of the Jenkins Arcade Building and the first block of the Kaufmann's Department Store, designed this building and a structure directly to the left [west], since destroyed by fire. They were identical designs based on Steen's earlier design of 923-927 Penn Avenue.

The group of buildings then referred to as the Keech Block, served the W.H. Keech Co. furniture business. The buildings are brownstone Richardsonian designs. The composition of 931 Penn Avenue is a single bay below the fifth floor, with arches and applied ornamental columns at the upper two stories defining a two-bay system almost identical to 923-927.

The facade of the building above the first floor was restored by the Conover Corporation in 1989. The architects for the restoration were L.P. Perfido Associates, and the contractor was Court Construction.