Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


St. Bernard in Mount Lebanon

You can tell St. Bernard’s congregation is a community of well-off business types, because the church’s Web site has both a mission statement and a page of “goals and objectives.” But the building itself is quite beautiful, especially its gloriously colorful tile roof. The architect was William R. Perry, who also designed, on a somewhat smaller scale but with equally splendid taste, the bandstand in West End Park. These pictures were taken from the Mount Lebanon Cemetery.

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  1. […] bandstand was designed by architect William R. Perry, who also designed the Catholic church of St. Bernard in Mount Lebanon. (Perry was a protege of John T. Comes, who designed many distinguished churches in Pittsburgh and […]

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