Father Pitt

This fine building, put up in 1912, is well preserved but unused, and we hope it can be kept in good shape. It sits in the Perry Hilltop part of Lafayette Hilltop—“Perry South” on city planning maps. It was designed by Chauncey W. Hodgdon¹ in an interesting combination of styles—round arches for the smaller windows, broad Gothic arches for the large windows, and a Tudor Gothic arcade in the front; except that the arches are more rounded than usual Tudor arches. Perhaps an architectural historian can nail down the style precisely, or perhaps it is simply unique to Hodgdon.

The Allegheny City Society has a substantial article about this church in the spring 2017 issue of the society newsletter (PDF).

1. In an earlier version of this article, we were not sure whether his given name was Chancey or Chauncey, but Chancey was a misprint that propagated to some later sources. ↩︎