Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Apartments in the Watkins Development, Squirrel Hill

5840 and 5844 Alderson Street

This quiet enclave of small apartment buildings is part of the same “city set on a hill” development as the Morrowfield, and the buildings were probably also designed by J. E. Dwyer. They’re fairly ordinary Pittsburgh buildings of the early 1920s, Mission style with a bit of Romanesque thrown in. They look their best in black and white.

Entrance arch
Alderson Street apartment buildings
Entrance to 2714 Shady Avenue
Ornament with mask
Fujifilm FinePix HS10; Samsung Digimax V4.


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