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Chimney Pots in Allegheny West
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Narcissus
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Some Houses on Cordova Road, Highland Park
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3. We’ve already seen two of the houses on Cordova Road: the Lillian Henius house and the Mother Goose cottage designed by Theodore Eichholz. The whole neighborhood of Highland Park is a historic district, and Cordova Road, short as it is, gives us a good sampling of a wide variety of architecture. This charming cottage is modest but unique.
Canon PowerShot SX150 IS. Here is a double house with Craftsman-style porch pillars decorated with a bit of Art Nouveau trim.
A sophisticated little Craftsman-style cottage.
This house stands somewhere near the intersection of Colonial, Renaissance, and modern.
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Grape Hyacinths of Two Sorts
Above, the common grape hyacinth (Muscari neglectum). Below, the bicolored grape hyacinth (Muscari latifolium).
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Houses on Bailey Avenue, Mount Washington
Bailey Avenue, right on the crest of Mount Washington, has an eclectic mix of grand Victorian houses, somewhat more modest houses from later eras, double houses, duplexes, and small apartment buildings. Here is a representative sampling of some of the single-family houses.
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Fancy Daffodils
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Saw Mill Run at Seldom Seen
We saw the movie version yesterday, and now here are two still pictures of the vigorously moving Saw Mill Run at Seldom Seen.
And here is a picture of the path leading toward the Arch and the railroad viaducts:
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Lillian Henius House, Highland Park
Built in 1918, this very artistic house was designed for an artist by Kiehnel & Elliott, who applied everything Richard Kiehnel had learned from the German Jugendstil masters and made a kind of modernist Bavarian peasant cottage. Kiehnel & Elliott were among our most interesting early modernists; they would go on to make architectural history by introducing Art Deco to Miami.
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Saw Mill Run After the Storms
Heavy rains left streams gushing and rivers overflowing. Go to the Wikimedia Commons hosting page for an HD version.
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Bridges at Night
The Three Sisters bridges have a new lighting scheme. Above, the Roberto Clemente or Sixth Street Bridge; below, the Andy Warhol or Seventh Street Bridge.
