A man silhouetted against the window in the palatial lobby of Heinz Hall.
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Morse School, South Side
The Samuel F. B. Morse School, built in 1874, is now the Morse Gardens apartments. It has recently had some extensive renovation work.
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Federal Reserve Bank Building
Three of our greatest Art Deco buildings are lined up in a row on Grant Street: the Koppers Tower, the Gulf Tower, and this magnificent deco-fascist composition by the Cleveland architects Walker and Weeks. This image is put together from six separate photographs, so it is huge if you click on it; there are some small stitching errors, but overall it looks very much like the architects’ original rendering.
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Schenley High School in 1916
Grant Boulevard (now Bigelow Boulevard) Front.
Abandoned for some time because it would have been too costly to restore for use by students, this magnificent building by Edward Stotz may soon be luxury apartments for yuppies. Here we see it as it was when it was newly built in 1916, from the Year Book of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club.
Rear.
Main Entrance Hall.
Would you like to build your own Schenley High School? Here are the original plans:
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Frick Environmental Center Under Construction
The old Frick Environmental Center in Squirrel Hill burned in 2002. It has taken this long to replace it, but we have every reason to believe that our patience will be rewarded. The new building is designed to meet the standards of the Living Building Challenge, providing its own heat, power, and water.
Camera: Canon PowerShot S45.
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Babbling Brook
Here is a happy little stream in Mount Lebanon. It is very fashionable these days to take pictures of moving water with a slow shutter, so that the details around it are sharp but the water is blurred. Father Pitt just wanted you to know that he can do that, too, as you see; he normally avoids it because he thinks it is a cliché whose time should have passed about five years ago.Camera: Canon PowerShot S45.
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More Orange Mushrooms
Identified as Mycena leaiana, until someone tells Father Pitt otherwise. They were growing along the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Out of the Woods
The evening sun greets us as we come up out of the woods from one of the hillside trails in Grandview Park.
Camera: Olympus E-20n.
