Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Modernistic Apartment Building on Walnut Street, Shadyside

Apartment building on Walnut Street

Shadyside seems to have a larger concentration of modernistic mid-twentieth-century apartment buildings than any other Pittsburgh neighborhood. Without any other information, old Pa Pitt would guess this one dates from about 1940.

Front with glass-block stairwell

Glass block from Pittsburgh Corning became a badge of modernity. If that were not enough, the metal awning over the entrance should do it.



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