Italianate detail on the upper floors of a storefront on Carson Street, South Side.
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Carson Street Victorian
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A Forgotten Temple
Like a forgotten Khmer temple rising out of the jungle, this octagonal mausoleum in the Allegheny Cemetery is partly overgrown, sprouting small trees from its roof. The black-and-white pictures were taken with an old Agfa Isolette, the color picture with a Yashica-A TLR.
More and larger pictures are here.
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A Light Fixture
A light fixture on the Frick Building. Henry Clay Frick intended this to be the best commercial building in America, so naturally his architect, the great Daniel Burnham, specified the best light fixtures in America.
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Romanesque Stares Back
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Snow in Black and White
Today’s snow in black and white, as it fell on a clot of trees in a little stream valley in Mount Lebanon.
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It Snowed Today
Snow was falling early this morning, and it kept up all through the day. These are some scenes from the woods of Mount Lebanon, just south of Pittsburgh.
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Allegheny Cemetery
Sometimes a camera’s flaws can be used to some advantage. An old and slightly foggy lens on a cheap Agfa folding camera gives the proper air of mystery to these scenes from the Allegheny Cemetery.
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Snow at Chatham Village
Chatham Village is a 1930s utopian community on the back slopes of Mount Washington. Though it was built to be housing for everyman, the simple good taste of the architecture and the beauty of the rolling grounds have made it more valuable than the surrounding neighborhood.
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Exuberantly Gothic
Calvary Methodist Church in Allegheny West is famous for its Tiffany windows, some of the greatest works of the Tiffany studios. Even if it didn’t have those windows, though, it might still be famous for this doorway.
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Your Money Is Safe
The Dollar Bank has never been the biggest or richest bank in the city, but the lions that flank the entrance certainly inspire confidence.
