The sidewalk of Lincoln Avenue in Allegheny West. A hundred years ago, this neighborhood had more millionaires per square mile than anywhere else on earth.
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A Proper School
The Linden Avenue School in Point Breeze. Learning must be something beautiful and important if it takes place in a building like this.
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More Gothic Fantasy
There are three Ralph Adams Cram churches in Pittsburgh, but by far the most fantastical of the lot is Holy Rosary in Homewood.
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The Gulf Building
The Gulf Building, an Art Deco tower with a top modeled after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, is rendered here in old-postcard colors through the marvel of modern digital technology.
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Carson Street Victorian
Italianate detail on the upper floors of a storefront on Carson Street, South Side.
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A Forgotten Temple
Like a forgotten Khmer temple rising out of the jungle, this octagonal mausoleum in the Allegheny Cemetery is partly overgrown, sprouting small trees from its roof. The black-and-white pictures were taken with an old Agfa Isolette, the color picture with a Yashica-A TLR.
More and larger pictures are here.
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A Light Fixture
A light fixture on the Frick Building. Henry Clay Frick intended this to be the best commercial building in America, so naturally his architect, the great Daniel Burnham, specified the best light fixtures in America.
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Snow in Black and White
Today’s snow in black and white, as it fell on a clot of trees in a little stream valley in Mount Lebanon.
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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.
