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Tag: East End Avenue

  • The Whitehall, Park Place

    The Whitehall

    Frederick Scheibler produced two variations on the same theme in 1906: this building and the Linwood a few blocks away. Each had half a dozen large and luxurious apartments. The general shape and layout was the same, and the windows were originally identical (the ones on the Linwood have been replaced). In both the balcony towers are the strongest visual features; here they terminate in large gables that give them even more emphasis. In both the eye is funneled down to the main entrance in the center by the placement of the windows on the third and second floors.

    The Whitehall
    Entrance

    The entrance, with its receding concentric abstract-Gothic arches, is unique to the Whitehall.

    Balconies
    The Whitehall
    Sony Alpha 3000.
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  • Row of Houses on East End Avenue, Park Place

    Row of houses on East End Avenue

    Here is a row of houses obviously all put up at the same time and designed by the same hand. In typical Pittsburgh fashion, they are all made of brick, but no two are the same color.

    310 East End Avenue
    Sony Alpha 3000.

    This house, which looks as though it is about to get some restoration work, has lost half its porch, but otherwise preserves most of its features in original condition.

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  • Modernistic Apartment Building in Regent Square

    814 East End Avenue

    This little box of apartments was probably built in the 1940s. It relies on contrasting bricks for its simple and effective decoration. Old Pa Pitt thinks those small windows must make the stairwell a dim place; but otherwise it is an attractive building that would have been even more attractive with the original windows, although the replacements are at least the right size for the holes in the wall.

    Perspective view
    Canon PowerShot SX20 IS.

    Regent Square is famous for being a single neighborhood divided among four municipalities. This building is just inside Pittsburgh city limits; the border with Wilkinsburg cuts a diagonal path through the neighborhood just a few yards to the southeast, merrily bisecting buildings as it goes.

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  • Center-Hall House in Park Place

    200 East End Avenue

    This house in what Father Pitt sometimes calls center-hall foursquare style was probably built in the 1890s, and its flared rooflines (even on the dormers) and angular brickwork must have looked very modern.

    200 East End Avenue
    200 East End Avenue
    Olympus E-20N.
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  • Early Scheibler in Park Place

    226 East End Avenue
    Olympus E-20N.

    Built in 1903, this apartment building on East End Avenue was one of the early works of our future prophetic modernist Frederick Scheibler, while he was still in his classical phase. It is listed as No. 16, “Apartment building for Robinson and Bruckman,” in the Catalogue of the Works of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr., in The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr., by Martin Aurand (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994).

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