The Linden Avenue School in Point Breeze. Learning must be something beautiful and important if it takes place in a building like this.
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A Proper School
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More Gothic Fantasy
There are three Ralph Adams Cram churches in Pittsburgh, but by far the most fantastical of the lot is Holy Rosary in Homewood.
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The Gulf Building
The Gulf Building, an Art Deco tower with a top modeled after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, is rendered here in old-postcard colors through the marvel of modern digital technology.
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Carson Street Victorian
Italianate detail on the upper floors of a storefront on Carson Street, South Side.
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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 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.
