Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


House from the 1880s in McKees Rocks

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In the 1880s, the old Lorenz Hufnagle property was sold off in lots and built over with little frame houses like this.

1890 Hopkins plat map with this house circled
1890 Hopkins plat map with this house circled. Frame houses are yellow on these maps; brick houses are red.

Later, when Island Avenue became a commercial district, the little frame houses were replaced by storefronts and apartment buildings—except this one, which survived almost unaltered. At some point it was sheathed in diamond asbestos-cement shingles, which are nearly perfectly preserved. It would probably cost a fortune to remove them because of the asbestos, but in this stable state they pose no danger.(1)

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