Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


R. P. McAllister House, Highland Park

R. P. McAllister House

Paul Irwin designed this house for R. P. McAllister; it was built in about 1920. (Father Pitt knows this information because the owners of the house helpfully inscribed it on a bronze plaque around the corner at the delivery entrance.) Though it is eclectic in its influences, everything works in harmony, from the Georgian front door to the Japanese eyebrow in the roofline to the surprising outbreaks of half-timbering in the rear.

1401 North Highland Avenue
Perspective view
From Down the Street
Rear of the house
Canon PowerShot SX150 IS; Fujifilm FinePix HS10.


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