These little stores with living quarters above were built in the 1880s(1), but the buildings are not much different from thousands that went up throughout the nineteenth century, and indeed they have their stylistic roots in the eighteenth century. They all preserve their properly inset shop entrances, so that doors do not hit passing pedestrians in the face.
Footnotes
- They appear on the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps, but not the 1880 layer. (↩)
