Father Pitt

Here is a building with personality, and we are happy to see it getting a restoration that respects its individual quirks. The building was sold in 1907 by Adelbert E. Dudgeon & Son;¹ and since the Dudgeons were architects and builders, and the building shows obvious similarities to some of their other apartment buildings, we are justified in assuming that they designed and built it.

Note the new porch columns. The original columns might have been more correctly classical, but these are a big improvement over the spindly metal supports that preceded them, which were easily bent out of shape by drunken teenagers.

If you moved into one of these apartments in the front, you would have an excellent view of the utility cables. You would also be a short walk from the shops of downtown Wilkinsburg, where interesting things are happening, and from the Wilkinsburg station on the East Busway.

1. “Investor Secures Wilkinsburg Flats,” Pittsburgh Post, October 17, 1907, p. 13. ↩︎

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