Vanadium Building (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

USA / Pennsylvania / Bloomfield / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / Meyran Avenue, 200
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The Vanadium Building (Flannery Building) was built in 1911 by Joseph Flannery, an industrialist who promoted vanadium and its use in high-strength steel alloys. When Flannery turned his attention to a different element, radium, he established a laboratory for refining it on the building's top floor. At one time the Flannery Building was said to contain more than half the world's inventory of processed radium. It even attracted a visit from Marie Curie in 1921. Residual radioactivity from radium production lingered on all floors and even the roof, and not until the early 2000s was the building fully decontaminated.
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Coordinates:   40°26'24"N   79°57'29"W
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