Mellon Hall is one of seven buildings named for notable secretaries of the United States Treasury at the suggestion of George F. Baker. Mellon Hall is named for Andrew W. Mellon. Built in 1926 as part ...

Like Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon focused his efforts on the industrial opportunities available in Pittsburgh. Born in 1855, he was a banker and venture capitalist who held investments in 300 companies ...

and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation.

D.C. He also founded the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. In the 1960s, the school merged with Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie ...