Father Pitt

This church was built in 1907 as the Eleventh United Presbyterian Church. The architect was Thomas Hannah.¹ Now it belongs to the Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal congregation, which has kept it in beautifully original shape, right down to the uncleaned black stones, which Father Pitt loves.

1. Record & Guide, May 8, 1907, p. 293. “Plans have been prepared by Architect Thomas Hannah, Diamond Bank Building, for a church to be erected in Allegheny for the Eleventh United Prestyterian [sic] congregation, at California and Davis avenues. Cost $35,000. Rev. Charles F. Wishart, pastor.” Our article has been revised with this information; old maps, apparently mistakenly, show it as a Congregational church. ↩︎