Father Pitt

Edwin V. Denick was the architect of this neat little corner-tower church, which was built in 1905.¹ The current congregation, the Baptist Temple Church, keeps it scrupulously tidy. “We do what we can,” one member modestly told old Pa Pitt—modestly because the man had just spent hours cleaning inside.

Old maps show that the attached parsonage was built later than the church, but it was matched very well to the style and material of the main building.

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1. “Real Estate Market Firm,” Pittsburg Press, December 20, 1904, p. 8. “D. N. Nuss & Son, of McKees Rocks, have the contract from Architect E. V. Denick for the brick and stone church to be built for the Belmar Christian congregation at Sterrett and Race streets, Twenty-first ward, at a cost of $15,000.” ↩︎