Rows of houses and small apartment buildings in the shadow of the Oakland medical-intellectual district.
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Central Oakland in the Rain
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You Can’t Get There from Here
Except on foot. This is Louisa Street in Oakland, a typical Pittsburgh street interrupted by a stairway.
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Pile of Belgian Block
Belgian block set aside at a hole-digging project in a street in Oakland. What Pittsburgh needs is more holes in streets.
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The Colonnade, Oakland
This small apartment building on Centre Avenue is named for its most obvious and distinctive feature: a two-storey Doric colonnade that has just been freshly painted.
Addendum: According to the city architectural inventory (PDF), the Colonnade was built in 1907.
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Queen Anne House on Neville Avenue
Another remnant of the time when Neville Avenue, now part of the apartment district on the border of Oakland and Shadyside, was a suburban retreat for the well-to-do. In spite of the fire escapes and the loss of its front porch, this house preserves most of its fine detailing, including its exceptionally tall windows.
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Rooftops of Oakland and Phipps Conservatory
Looking across the rowhouses and apartments of central Oakland toward Phipps Conservatory. In the distance at upper left is the Park Mansions apartment building.
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Young Men and Women’s Hebrew Association, Oakland
Another of Benno Janssen’s imposing clubs. We have seen this building from the front before; this corner view gives us an impression of the scale of the whole structure. It is now Bellefield Hall of the University of Pittsburgh.
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Second Empire House on Neville Avenue, Oakland
Now apartments, this grand old house, right at the edge of Oakland on the border of Shadyside, is a remnant of the time when what is now the apartment district was a suburban retreat for the well-to-do.
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Masonic Temple, Oakland
Another magnificent clubhouse by Benno Janssen; it is now Alumni Hall of the University of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Athletic Association
One of Benno Janssen’s masterpieces; here we see it from the Cathedral of Learning grounds.
