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Valley View Presbyterian Church
This pretty little church stands on the Stanton Heights corner of the intersection where Stanton Heights, Garfield, and East Liberty meet on city planning maps. We might identify it as Romanesque by its round arches, but the general form, square with a corner tower, seems more Arts and Crafts.
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Cathedral of Learning Through the Trees
The Cathedral of Learning seen through the trees in front of the Schenley Plaza side of the Carnegie Institute building.
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Grotesque Light Fixture, Carnegie Institute
All the details of the Carnegie Institute buildings (designed by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow) are worth observing. Here is a light fixture held up by a splendid grotesque arm.
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Webster Hall from the Corner of Dithridge Street
An oblique view of Webster Hall. And is that a bus coming toward us? Yes, it is.
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St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral
The classical style of this church, which is now the cathedral for the Metropolis of Pittsburgh, is quite unusual for a Greek Orthodox church. Greek Christians do not usually build in a Greek classical style—and the style of this church, with the prominent arch in the front, is more Roman than Greek. The explanation is that it was built for Methodists; the Orthodox congregation bought it from them.
Even if you don’t know much Greek, you can probably guess that this is the name of the church in Greek: “St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral Church.”
One of the splendid Ionic capitals that hold up a front of which Vitruvius would have approved.
