Tag: Foursquare Houses

  • Some Houses on Washington Road, Mount Lebanon

    822 Washington Road

    Four houses at the southern end of the Uptown business district in Mount Lebanon. First is what we might call a center-hall foursquare—the basic foursquare design, but widened to place the reception hall in the center and add a library or second parlor to one side.

    Window detail
    Chimney
    822 Washington Road
    814 Washington Road

    It is fairly unusual to find a brick-and-shingle house with the wood shingles still intact, even in a rich neighborhood. Here is one with its original roof, its original shingles, and either its original shutters or good replacements.

    806 Washington Road

    Here is a kind of Tudor or English Manor design with a very vertical idea of half-timbering.

    806
    Corner view of 806
    Side of 806
    782

    Finally, a house of a later generation, probably the late 1920s. Father Pitt does not know the architect, but the second-floor oriel in a front-facing gable was a favorite device of Lamont Button.

    782

    Cameras: Kodak EasyShare Z1285; Fujifilm FinePix HS10.

  • Pittsburgh Foursquare in Highland Park

    House on Negley Avenue at Jackson Street

    A particularly grand version of the Pittsburgh Foursquare house, this house on Negley Avenue at Jackson Street was one of four in a row built in the early 1900s for James Parker, who had a small real-estate empire in the nearby streets.

    From a 1910 map at Pittsburgh Historic Maps.

    All four were almost certainly designed by the same hand, and all four still stand in beautiful condition today.