Ingham & Boyd were the architects of this very respectable French cottage overlooking Wilkins Avenue from a little service road.1 It was built for W. A. Steinmeyer, vice-president of the Allemannia Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh. The placement of the entrance at the left instead of in the center is uncharacteristic of the architects, and we can only assume that some desirable interior arrangement made it worth departing from their usual rule of exact symmetry.
- Source: The American Contractor, July 12, 1924. “Res.: $25.000. 2½ sty. & bas. Irreg. Approx. 43×68. Brk. on h. t. 5324 Wilkins av. Archt. Ingram [sic] & Boyd, Empire bldg. Owner Wm. A. Steinmeyer, vice-pres., The Allemannia Fire Insurance Co., 7 Wood st. Gen. contr. let to Hugh Boyce, 1719 Meadville st.” There is no house at 5324, but the lot at 5320 is shown as belonging to W. A. Steinmetz [sic] in 1923. Polk’s City Directory for 1926 shows W. A. Steinmeyer living at 5324 Wilkins Avenue; by 1939 the address of this house is 5320 on the Hopkins plat map. The next address after 5320 on Wilkins Avenue is 5392. ↩︎
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