Continuing from yesterday, the staff person who was showing us around gave us some history on the ceiling in the main dining room.
The people who renovated the railroad station into a restaurant had no idea there were real Tiffany stained-glass windows in the ceiling. The square glass windows were blacked out during WWII.
Spurred on by this tidbit, I Googled to find out more. According to a Pittsburgh City Paper article from 2004, not only were they blacked out with paint, but they were covered in decades of coal dust and tar. Nothing they did would clean them until a woman suggested oven cleaner. It took 400 cans to get the glass clean!
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