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  • Romanesque Stares Back

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    Faces on the Times Building, a Romanesque jewel designed by Frederick Osterling.

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    December 6, 2007
  • Snow in Black and White

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    Today’s snow in black and white, as it fell on a clot of trees in a little stream valley in Mount Lebanon.

    December 5, 2007
  • It Snowed Today

    Snow was falling early this morning, and it kept up all through the day. These are some scenes from the woods of Mount Lebanon, just south of Pittsburgh.

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    December 5, 2007
  • Allegheny Cemetery

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    Sometimes a camera’s flaws can be used to some advantage. An old and slightly foggy lens on a cheap Agfa folding camera gives the proper air of mystery to these scenes from the Allegheny Cemetery.

    Row of headstones

    December 5, 2007
  • Snow at Chatham Village

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    Chatham Village is a 1930s utopian community on the back slopes of Mount Washington. Though it was built to be housing for everyman, the simple good taste of the architecture and the beauty of the rolling grounds have made it more valuable than the surrounding neighborhood.

    December 4, 2007
  • Exuberantly Gothic

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    Calvary Methodist Church in Allegheny West is famous for its Tiffany windows, some of the greatest works of the Tiffany studios. Even if it didn’t have those windows, though, it might still be famous for this doorway.

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    December 4, 2007
  • Your Money Is Safe

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    The Dollar Bank has never been the biggest or richest bank in the city, but the lions that flank the entrance certainly inspire confidence.

    December 4, 2007
  • Falling Up

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    Looking up into the rotunda of the Union Trust Building gives one the uncanny sensation of falling up into the vortex.

    December 3, 2007
  • Night and Day

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    It is the civic duty of every Pittsburgher who entertains out-of-town visitors to take them up to Mount Washington and show off the skyline. These two pictures were taken a few years ago, but the overall impression changes little.

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    December 3, 2007
  • Sunset or Sunrise?

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    Stained glass from a mausoleum in Allegheny Cemetery. Is it a sunset or a sunrise? That depends, perhaps, on what we think of death.

    December 3, 2007
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