Two Second Empire rowhouses whose upper floors are fairly well preserved. The one on the right has had some adventures on the ground floor, possibly including a storefront at some point. Note the wooden shingles on the house on the left.
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Second Empire Houses on Sarah Street, South Side
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Victorian Row on Sarah Street, South Side
A fine block of rowhouses on the north side of Sarah Street.
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Hotel Lieb, South Side
Here are some utility cables with an old hotel behind them. The Hotel Lieb was a neighborhood hotel in the common Pittsburgh sense of being a bar with a few rooms above, because liquor licenses were fiendishly hard to get for bars but easy for hotels. It was built in the early 1900s at the intersection of Sarah Street with the oddly angled 29th Street, and the unusual angle is mitigated by cutting off the corner and putting the entrance there.
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More Front Doors and Breezeways of the South Side
More of the front doors, with their charming woodwork, and the mysterious breezeways (which are not much of a mystery) of the South Side.
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Fall Colors on the South Side
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Domestic Stained Glass on the South Side
Parlor windows and transoms over the front door are often decorated with stained glass. Old Pa Pitt has been out wandering the South Side in the evening to bring back a few pictures of stained glass the way it was meant to be seen.
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More Civil-War-Era Houses on Jane Street
These houses date from before 1872, to judge by both old maps and the general shape of the houses. Some have been more drastically altered than others. Old Pa Pitt is particularly interested in the one that has had a new “used-brick” façade added, but whose sides—as you can just make out in this picture—are still sheathed in asphalt sheets with a cartoon stone pattern.
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Second Empire Houses on the South Side
A matched pair of Second Empire houses in nearly perfect shape except for the modern dormer windows. The folk-art etching in the lintels is charming.
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Civil-War-Era Frame Houses on Jane Street
Each one of them has had its individual adventures, but it seems fairly certain that this row of half a dozen frame houses with narrow dormers dates from before 1872. Together they form something of a manual or catalogue of things that can happen to a frame house in Pittsburgh over the course of a century and a half.
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More Front Doors of the South Side
Another small celebration of the varieties of woodwork to be found on South Side houses.
