Main Street in Carnegie has a good assortment of styles from mid-Victorian on. Here we walk up the eastern half of the street, taking in a few of the buildings we haven’t separately noted.
Father Pitt
Why should the beautiful die?
A Stroll on East Main Street in Carnegie
See a random picture
and become a better person
if you wanted a book.
2 responses to “A Stroll on East Main Street in Carnegie”
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The stone facade on that last building is quite impressive. It’s real stone and a couple inches thick. The person laying it even put keystones above some of the openings. It really takes a moment to determine that it’s not actually a fully stone building from the early 1800s. Certainly several cuts above the chintzy ‘stone’ cladding that’s often put on even much more expensive buildings.
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This seems to have been a product of the surge in interest in local vernacular architecture in the 1920s and 1930s promoted by some of our better architects—notably Charles Stotz, who wrote the book on The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania, and Louis Stevens, who designed his own home in the Western Pennsylvania Farmhouse Revival style and used his talents as a photographer to document many old buildings for the Historic American Buildings Survey. Father Pitt is on the lookout for the name of the architect of this little building in Carnegie.
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