Probably no single street in Pittsburgh can claim so many distinguished dwellings as Beechwood Boulevard—mostly because it is a very long street that winds through three prosperous neighborhoods. Picking a block almost at random, old Pa Pitt strolled down the street and photographed every house on the sunny side. The majority of these houses share design quirks that make us think they were probably drawn by the same hand.
A pair of postwar doubles that illustrate the demographic changes over the history of Squirrel Hill. This block of Beechwood Boulevard mostly filled in with grand houses for the upper middle class; after the war, these much more modest dwellings were the ones that made sense. Today, a new house built here would probably equal the older grand houses in square footage, if not in quality of construction.
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