Washington Park is one of those 1920s plans in Mount Lebanon that filled up with houses by different architects in different styles, until—like the others—it became a museum of the styles of the era. It’s part of the Mount Lebanon Historic District. This collection is the product of two walks on Vernon Drive, one just yesterday, and one back in May, so don’t be too surprised to see the seasons changing as we stroll.
We begin with an outlier: a Mediterranean villa in a neighborhood where most of the houses range from Georgian to fairy-tale Northern European.
We have dozens more pictures to show you, which we’ll put below the metaphorical fold to keep from weighing down the front page.
When he came to this house, old Pa Pitt wondered whether he had walked in a circle. But no: it is an exact duplicate, right down to the retaining wall and driveway, of a house farther down the street:
