These houses were built in 1910, and nothing like their brisk modernity had been seen in Pittsburgh. Frederick Scheibler(1) was our most adventurous modernist in those days, and these would have been approved by the Bauhaus ten or twenty years later.
The two houses on the upper end of the upper row have been kept in near-original condition, though they are in less than perfect shape.
In the rest of the row, different ownerships have sent the houses careening off in various directions.
Like many architects of terraces like these, Scheibler repeated this design in multiple locations. Apparently both Scheibler and his clients considered the design a success. We’ll be seeing more of these little houses.
Footnotes
- The houses are listed as No. 65 in The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr., by Martin Aurand, p. 145 (↩)
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