Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


A Few Houses on Ivy Street, Shadyside

727 Ivy Street

A few houses that show the wide variety of late-Victorian styles on this one street in central Shadyside.

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Many of the houses in Shadyside were victims of the epidemic of porch amputations in the 1960s and 1970s. The one above, having lost its porch in the rage against porches of the late twentieth century, grew a new porch just a few years ago.

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