Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Fairy-Tale Apartment Building in Brookline

Apartment building on Brookline Boulevard

A little apartment building—with four apartments, judging by the number of buzzers—in what old Pa Pitt calls the fairy-tale style, the mark of which is exaggeratedly picturesque features that look like illustrations from a children’s book.

Apartment building on Brookline Boulevard
Entrance

The entrance is so similar to the entrance to the Sholten Arms in Carrick that we have to suspect the same hand drew both. Father Pitt’s guess is that the decorative gable was originally carried all the way to its logical peak, but was truncated when the overhang was rebuilt.

Decorative gable
1149 Brookline Boulevard
Entrance
Kodak EasyShare Max Z990.


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