Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Third Ward School, Dutchtown

Third Ward Public School

Designed by Frederick Sauer, this school was called the Latimer School after Allegheny was conquered by Pittsburgh. It was built in 1898.

Date stone with date 1898

In the 1980s it was converted to apartments under the name “The School House.” As far as old Pa Pitt knows, this was the first major conversion of a disused school to apartments in the city, and it showed that the idea was viable.

Entrance

The school was converted to apartments in the age of Postmodernism, and the designer of this canopy cleverly made it a kind of abstracted projection of the original entrance. Father Pitt caught the fabric part of the canopy on a bad hair day.

Romanesque capital
Latimer School
North Avenue side of the school
Nikon COOLPIX P100.

The North Avenue side.

Map.



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