A decorative panel on a building on Forbes Avenue seems to capture the spirit of medieval decoration filtered through an Art Deco lens.
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Mercy Hospital
Pittsburgh’s first hospital is also our last remaining Catholic hospital, operating as part of the UPMC empire under an agreement that allows it to retain its Catholic principles. It sits at the top of the Bluff, and if you have to be sick one consolation may be that your room has a swell view. In this picture, the UPMC logo lowers symbolically over the complex from the top of the U. S. Steel tower.
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Panhandle Bridge
An outbound Blue Line car heads toward Station Square on the Panhandle Bridge, an old railroad bridge repurposed, along with the railroad tunnel under downtown, for the subway in the 1980s.
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Statues on St. Adalbert’s Church
Some of the statues that adorn the 15th Street front of St. Adalbert’s, beginning, of course, with St. Adalbert himself. The church and its art are in need of restoration, which is to say in need of money.
It was very kind of the sculptor to give these figures a book to read while they stood there for all eternity.
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Uptown Mount Lebanon
A compressed view of the northern half of the Washington Road business district in Mount Lebanon, one of our more affluent urban suburbs.
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A Visit to McKeesport in 1888
McKeesport was the second city of Allegheny County, far enough from Pittsburgh to be a small metropolitan center in its own right, but near enough to be within commuting distance of the larger city. The economic engine of the city was the National Tube Works, which gave McKeesport the proud nickname “Tube City.”
Metal tubing, however, was not the city’s only industry. For example, the Wernke Brothers produced carriages, wagons, and other vehicles.
All that money had to be kept somewhere, and this was the First National Bank. Later bank buildings in McKeesport grew much grander.
