Father Pitt

The front of green terra cotta is unique in Pittsburgh. Frederick C. Sauer designed this building, and when it was done he moved his office into it. It is the only one of Sauer’s buildings, as far as old Pa Pitt knows, that bore his name on the building itself, though at some point some workman, doubtless thinking he was doing a splendid job of renovating the building, did his best to obliterate the letters:

Addendum: As we might have guessed from looking at the front, the building rose in two stages. Three floors were added in 1909.¹

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1. “Erecting More Home Dwellings,” Press, May 16, 1909, p. 36). “The F. G. Saur [sic] building on Penn avenue, near Eighth street, is to be made a seven story structure by the addition of three stories.” ↩︎