Father Pitt

The Hilltop neighborhoods outgrew this telephone exchange, and a new Art Deco palace of telephony was built up the street. But the building remained standing, and has been converted to apartments.

James Windrim, the Philadelphia architect who did all of Bell of Pennsylvania’s work for some years in the early twentieth century, supervised alterations and additions to this building in 1923 or 1924,¹ but he may not have been the original architect.

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1. Source: The American Contractor, September 22, 1923: “Office Bldg. (Lafayette central; alt. & add.): $30,000. Warrington av. & Craighead st., Pittsburgh. Archt. John T. Windrim, Commonwealth bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Owner The Bell Telephone Co. of Penna., W. W. Henderson, div. mgr., 427 7th av., Pittsburgh. Gen. contr. let to Sinnot & Sons, 2801 Perrysville av., Pittsburgh.” ↩︎