Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Parkstone Dwellings, North Point Breeze

Parkstone Dwellings

Built in 1922, the Parkstone Dwellings are the most astonishing double duplex in Pittsburgh. The architect was Frederick Scheibler, who had come through a period of prophetic modernism into a period of romantic fantasy.

Left side of the Parkstone Dwellings
Parkstone Dwellings
Parkstone Dwellings

The tenants upstairs are airing out their rugs. No, wait—

Oriental-rug mosaic

—that’s a mosaic!

Mosaic
Parkstone Dwellings
Sony Alpha 3000; Nikon COOLPIX P100.

The Scheibler Treasure Hunt blogger had the good luck to stumble on an estate sale here back in 2013, so you can run to that site for interior shots of one of the Parkstone Dwellings.



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