Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Universal Steel Company Office, Bridgeville

Universal Steel Company office

Charles J. Palmgreen was the architect of this fine Jacobean structure, which looks so much like a school that old Pa Pitt spent an hour trying to figure out which school it was before finally finding a picture of it in the Pittsburgh Press for March 23, 1927, which identified the building.

“The office of the Universal Steel Co. on Station st., the most impressive office building in Bridgeville.”
Universal Steel Company office
Universal Steel Company office
Terra cotta from the Corning Terra Cotta Company

The terra-cotta decorations were supplied by the Corning Terra Cotta Company of Corning, New York, which we know from a booklet published by the company that listed dozens of buildings, including their architects, which is where we got the attribution to Mr. Palmgreen.

Universal Steel Company office
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS.


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