Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Milgate Street, Bloomfield

Houses on Milgate Street in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh
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These frame houses were built in the 1880s and 1890s. They are detached houses—detached by just enough room for an average person to walk between them. As a group, they form a good document of the things ambitious salesmen could sell to middle-class homeowners in the twentieth century. Not a single one retains its original details: they have all had their siding replaced, and most have smaller windows than the originals. And, of course, several have sprouted aluminum awnings.

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