Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Reed House, Shadyside

Reed house, Shadyside

Willis McCook was a lawyer to the robber barons, which earned him a baronial mansion among them on the Fifth Avenue millionaires’ row.

Willis McCook house

For his daughter and her husband, he hired the same architects, Carpenter & Crocker, to design this neat little Tudor cottage around the corner on the Amberson Avenue side of his property. We can see how the architects cleverly linked the two houses by making the central peak of the smaller house echo the prickly gables of the larger one.

925 Amberson Avenue
Perspective view
From half a block away
Kodak EasyShare Z981; Canon PowerShot SX150 IS; Samsung Galaxy A15 5G.

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