We’ve seen some of these houses on Longuevue Drive before; others are making their first appearance here. Father Pitt’s ambition is to document every house in the Mount Lebanon Historic District. If he ever succeeds in balancing that ambition with all his other ambitions, he may get it done. Meanwhile, here are a few beautiful houses to enjoy, and we need no more excuse than that for these pictures.
To avoid weighing down the front page for a week and a half, we’ll put the rest of the pictures below the metaphorical fold.
We suspect that the little gable over the front door was originally half-timbered. If so, this is one of the most substantial alterations to the front of a house in the whole neighborhood, where a remarkable uniformity of preservation prevails. Large additions have been made to many of the houses, but almost always in the back, where they are invisible from the street.
Here we can see one of those large additions we mentioned behind the house.
In a neighborhood of exceptionally picturesque houses, this eyebrowed front door is exceptionally exceptional.
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