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Storm Clouds on the South Side
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The 2300 Block of Sarah Street
An album of fine Victorian houses from one block of Sarah Street on the South Side. These are not all the distinguished houses in this block: these are just the ones Father Pitt managed to get good pictures of in an after-sunset stroll.
Since we have fourteen pictures in this article, we’ll put the rest below the metaphorical fold to avoid weighing down the main page.
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Sixteenth Street, South Side
Looking south on South Sixteenth Street with the domes of St. George’s in the distance.
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Uxor Way and St. Michael’s Church, South Side
This is one of those only-in-Pittsburgh views: a glorious Romanesque church on the Slopes hovering over little frame alley houses on the Flats. St. Michael’s (now the Angel’s Arms apartments) was designed by Charles F. Bartberger, father of, and often confused with, the prolific Charles M. Bartberger.
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Construction Site at Sunset
A new apartment block is going up at the SouthSide Works.
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Sunset on Sarah Street, South Side
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Victorian Reflections on Carson Street, South Side
The tops of Victorian commercial buildings reflected in a 1920s building across the street.
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Gimbels Warehouse, South Side
Now an office building poetically called 2100 Wharton Street, this enormous warehouse covers almost an entire block of the South Side. It was built for the Gimbels department store in the 1920s, when it would have had rail access to the Pennsylvania Railroad spur that ran right down the middle of 21st Street.
Below we see it from the riverfront, looming over South Side rowhouses in the middle distance.
Addendum: The warehouse was built in about 1924; the architects and engineers were James P. Piper and Henry M. Kropff.
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A Stroll Down Sarah Street on the South Side
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Grand Concourse, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Terminal
The interior of the P&LE terminal, now Pittsburgh’s most spectacular restaurant.
Addendum: According to the Inland Architect, the “quite elaborate” waiting room and stair hall were designed by Crossman & Sturdy, decorators, of Chicago. The architect of the building was William G. Burns, or possibly George W. Burns, depending on the source.
