Giuseppe Moretti’s sculpture of Hygeia stands in Schenley Park as a memorial to the physicians who served in the First World War.
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Hygeia
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Wide-Angle Views of St. Paul’s
Camera: Canon PowerShot S45.
An update: When Father Pitt first posted this article, the pictures were distorted. That was because old Pa Pitt had not figured out how to choose the proper projection in the Hugin panorama software. What a difference it makes!
By stitching together multiple photographs, we get these impossibly wide-angled views of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oakland. Since the street in front is busy, we also get some ghost figures on the sidewalk and ghost vehicles driving past.
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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Oakland
Part of the medical and university district in Oakland.
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Schenley Park Café and Visitor Center
Father Pitt believes that buildings in public parks should all look like this: neat and attractive, with some suggestion that they might have been built by gnomes. It was built in 1910 from a design by Rutan and Russell. In the foreground we see one of the splendid dolphin drinking fountains designed for Pittsburgh’s parks by Frank Vittor.
Update: In an earlier version of this article, the building was attributed to Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, the successors to H. H. Richardson. Father Pitt has long forgotten where he got that information, but it was wrong; Rutan had left that firm twenty years before this building went up, and partnered with Russell in 1896.
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Rodef Shalom Temple
Although it’s technically in Shadyside, Rodef Shalom stands at the east end of the Oakland monumental district, the long row of dazzling architecture along Fifth Avenue. Much of the dazzle was contributed by Henry Hornbostel, and few of his buildings are more dazzling than this. It was built in 1907, and it is far and away the finest synagogue building in Pittsburgh.
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Oakland from Across the Monongahela
KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA Central Oakland seen in the last rays of evening sun.
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Hotel Schenley
From the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Blue Book, 1899-1900. This building is now the William Pitt Student Union, having been absorbed, like much of the rest of Oakland, into the University of Pittsburgh.
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Tufa Bridge and Stairway, Schenley Park
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School for Blind Children
This building from 1894, right next to Schenley Farms in Oakland, was designed by George L. Orth, and still houses the school he designed it for.
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Schenley Farms
Stuck in a corner of the university district in Oakland, Schenley Farms is a delightful surprise. The institutional buildings of the University of Pittsburgh come to a sudden halt, and all at once there are tree-lined streets with century-old houses in a broad but harmonious variety of styles—everything from Italian Renaissance palaces to Tudor mansions to rustic stone cottages.
The streets are named after what the projectors of the neighborhood considered the greatest writers of the modern age. We can still see two of their names in brass in the sidewalk at the intersection of Parkman and Lytton—that’s Francis Parkman, the great American historian, and Lord Lytton, or Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the inspiration for the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
