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Tag: Dudgeon (Adelbert E.) & Son

  • Zimmerman Flats, Regent Square

    Apartment building in Regent Square

    Wilkinsburg’s own A. (for Adelbert) Dudgeon & Son, architects and builders, designed this striking apartment building in the Wilkinsburg quarter of Regent Square. Part of the front has been filled in, the fourth-floor balconies have been removed, and a Richard Nixon nose has been added, but on the whole the building is in very good shape, as we can see from this newspaper picture of the building when it was new in 1907.

    Gazette Times, March 3, 1907. Thanks to David Schwing for finding this picture.

    Henrietta Street is now Whitney Avenue in Wilkinsburg, though the same street is still Henrietta once it crosses into Pittsburgh. Later maps show the building as the Ward Apartments, so Mr. Zimmerman must have sold it.

    Apartment building in Regent Square
    Apartment building in Regent Square
    Base of the building
    Entrance
    Balconies from the side
    Balcony arch
    Apartment building in Regent Square
    Canon PowerShot SX20 IS; Sony Alpha 3000 with 7Artisans f/1.4 35mm lens.
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  • Central Apartments, Wilkinsburg

    Front elevation of the Central Apartments

    Here is a building with personality, and we are happy to see it getting a restoration that respects its individual quirks. The building was sold in 1907 by Adelbert E. Dudgeon & Son;1 and since the Dudgeons were architects and builders, and the building shows obvious similarities to some of their other apartment buildings, we are justified in assuming that they designed and built it.

    Window
    Porch

    Note the new porch columns. The original columns might have been more correctly classical, but these are a big improvement over the spindly metal supports that preceded them, which were easily bent out of shape by drunken teenagers.

    Central Apartments
    Central Apartments

    If you moved into one of these apartments in the front, you would have an excellent view of the utility cables. You would also be a short walk from the shops of downtown Wilkinsburg, where interesting things are happening, and from the Wilkinsburg station on the East Busway.

    Central Apartments from the side
    Canon PowerShot SX20 IS.
    1. “Investor Secures Wilkinsburg Flats,” Pittsburgh Post, October 17, 1907, p. 13. ↩︎
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