Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Row of Shops in Swissvale

1900 block of Monongahela Avenue

It’s rare to find something like this: an entire block of shops and apartments built all at once, and still active as shops and apartments. It’s the pre-automobile equivalent of a strip mall. Some alterations have happened over the century and a quarter or so of this row’s life, but many of the characteristic details are well preserved.

Shop with apartments above
Cornice detail
Sony Alpha 3000; Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR.


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