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Tag: Academy Avenue

  • Apartment Buildings on Academy Avenue

    140 Academy Avenue

    Academy Avenue in Mount Lebanon has a mixture of single-family homes and small to medium-sized apartment buildings. We have seen some of the apartment buildings before; here are a few more.

    44 Academy Avenue

    We saw the building above once before; here it is in a different light at a different time of year. The architect was probably Charles Geisler, and buildings in variations of this same basic plan are all over Mount Lebanon and Dormont.

    36 and 34 Academy Avenue

    This is a tidy double duplex in very close to original condition. The little details make all the difference in its appearance: the tile roof overhangs, the proper windows for the era, and the little German-art-magazine ornaments in the brickwork.

    28 Academy Avenue

    Cameras: Nikon COOLPIX P100, Kodak EasyShare Z1285.

  • The Berkshire, Mount Lebanon

    The Berkshire

    We have seen the Berkshire before, but those pictures weren’t very good, so old Pa Pitt went back and got better ones. It’s a courtyard apartment building in the Mount Lebanon Historic District; as Father Pitt said the first time he visited, this building is in a simple but attractive Jacobean style, where a few effective details carry all the thematic weight.

    Gate and entrance
    Front door
    Lantern and gatepost

    Cameras: Kodak EasyShare Z1285; Nikon COOLPIX P100.