Father Pitt

With almost complete confidence, old Pa Pitt attributes this Episcopal church to Ingham & Boyd. It speaks the same dialect of Gothic as some of their other churches, and they are known to have designed the parish house that was built just before the church. However, Father Pitt has not yet found the documentary evidence that would remove the “almost” from his statement.

The cornerstone was laid on October 5, 1930. At the same time, one stone taken from the foundation of Old St. Luke’s in nearby Woodville was also laid in the foundation of this church, to tie it to the pre-Revolutionary tradition of Episcopalianism in Allegheny County.¹

This parish house is known from several listings to have been the work of Ingham & Boyd,² and it was built just a little before the church itself. The architects looked to vernacular Western Pennsylvania farmhouses for their inspiration. We do not know what inspired the designer of the modern vestibule.

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1. “Lay Cornerstone for New Carnegie Church,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 6, 1930. ↩︎
2. For example, “Church in Carnegie Plans Parish House,” Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, February 16, 1930. ↩︎