Cedarhurst Manor is a plan where many of the houses date from the Depression era—a time, as Father Pitt has pointed out before, when there was a good bit of home construction going on, because conventional wisdom held that, if you had the money for a house, it was more economical to take advantage of low labor and materials costs and build a new one than to buy an older house. The plan is not included in the Mount Lebanon Historic District (at least not yet), but many of the houses are distinguished architecturally and well preserved.
This house has a new front porch, but the woodwork and slate roof are so much in harmony with the spirit of the neighborhood, and so much like original porches on other houses of the period, that we might never guess it was an addition if we had not seen the house in its porchless state. We also note that the house has also been extended in two directions, but again without harm to the impression it makes from the street.
