Father Pitt believes that buildings in public parks should all look like this: neat and attractive, with some suggestion that they might have been built by gnomes. It was built in 1910 from a design by Rutan and Russell. In the foreground we see one of the splendid dolphin drinking fountains designed for Pittsburgh’s parks by Frank Vittor.
Update: In an earlier version of this article, the building was attributed to Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the successors to H. H. Richardson. Father Pitt has long forgotten where he got that information, but it was wrong; Rutan had left that firm twenty years before this building went up, and partnered with Russell in 1896.(1)
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
Footnotes
- See the Wikipedia article on Rutan & Russell. (↩)
