Ingram, a pleasant little borough in the Chartiers Valley, has a typically Pittsburgh assortment of house styles, from working-class frame houses to grand mansions. Here are just a few houses snapped at random while old Pa Pitt was taking a short stroll near the Ingram station. Above and below, a stately foursquare whose large lot makes room for a curved wraparound porch and sunroom.
A Dutch Colonial that preserves its wooden shingles.
What appears at first glance to be another foursquare is actually a duplex, although it might have been built as a single-family house.
A tidy cottage that probably dates from the 1920s. Note the fat tapered Craftsman-style columns in front.
A huge, rambling center-hall house. Father Pitt suspects that the corner projection, which now has a flat roof, originally supported a square turret.
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