Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Four Mansions on Wilkins Avenue, Squirrel Hill

5310 Wilkins Avenue

Perhaps it is stretching a point to call this first one a mansion, but it is a big house built with the best materials.

5314

A Georgian mansion that would look at home in Annapolis or Williamsburg.

5314
5321 Wilkins Avenue

A different and less pedantically correct take on Colonial Revival. Note the shutters that actually shut.

5321
5321
5321

The garage has a comfortable apartment for your chauffeur.

5325

The Smith mansion is built of very dark brick in a subdued Flemish Renaissance style. Appropriately, the bricks are laid in Flemish bond.

5325
5325
5325
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