Tag: Brackets

  • Arts-and-Crafts Apartments in Shadyside

    728 Summerlea Street

    Update: Thanks to our correspondent David Schwing, we have more information on this building, which is a kind of split-level apartment house with three floors if we count a high basement, the entrance being between two levels. We had originally called it a duplex, but it seems to be a triplex. The architect was C. P. Hitchens, a developer-architect who designed his own buildings; he bought the lot in 1911.

    The arts-and-crafts style of the building, with a tinge of Spanish mission, is expressed in patterned brickwork and big carved wooden brackets. The windows have been replaced, but the tiles and brackets at least have been preserved.

    Perspective view
    Bracket
    Entrance overhang
    Fujifilm FinePix HS10.

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  • Brackets and Shutters

    Brackets

    On a building on Western Avenue in Allegheny West.

    940 Western Avenue
    Fujifilm FinePix HS10.