Father Pitt

Tag: Front Doors

  • Two Front Doors on Sidney Street, South Side

    Front doors of 1814 and 1812 Sidney Street

    With falling snow for added picturesque effect.

    1812
    1814
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  • Front Door on Sarah Street

    Front door on Sarah Street
    Woodwork
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  • Front Door of the B. F. Jones House, Allegheny West

    Front door of the Jones mansion
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    Steel baron B. F. Jones’ front doorway is a feast of elaborate terra cotta. This is a very large picture: enlarge it to appreciate the details of the terra cotta and ironwork.

  • Doorbell Buttons

    Pair of doorbell buttons

    A pair of old doorbell buttons on a house on the South Side. They have little windows where the name of the occupant to be summoned could be displayed. The similar button on the front door of the Pitt mansion is connected by a wire to an electrically activated clapper in the basement, which beats against a bell after the manner of an alarm clock as long as the button is pressed. This is enough racket to be heard throughout a large house. One does have to warn guests about it, though; otherwise the first political canvasser who shows up will send them running for the exits thinking the fire alarm has gone off.

  • Front Doors of Monterey Street, Mexican War Streets

    1223 Monterey Street
    1409
    1220
    1220 woodwork
    1214
    1216
    Woodwork at 1216
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  • Second Empire Houses on 13th Street, South Side

    Pair of Second Empire rowhouses

    On a street of mostly small vernacular rowhouses, this pair of grand Second Empire houses dominates the streetscape. They are well preserved and well cared for, and we need no more excuse to appreciate the details.

    Front door

    This front entrance (could you guess that the picture was taken the day after Halloween?) bears an unusual memento of the original owner of the house:

    Monogram: JS

    Note the monogram on the side of the steps. An 1890 map shows that the house belonged to a Jonathan Seibert.

    Breezeway and front door

    Note the exceptionally elaborate door on the breezeway.

  • More Front Doors and Breezeways of the South Side

    Front door

    More of the front doors, with their charming woodwork, and the mysterious breezeways (which are not much of a mystery) of the South Side.

    Bracket
    Breezeway
    Breezeway and front door
    Front door

  • More Front Doors of the South Side

    Front door

    Another small celebration of the varieties of woodwork to be found on South Side houses.

    This is also a front door
    Another front door
    Now here we have a front door
    It looks like a front door to me
    Probably a front door
    If we had to guess, we should say this was a front door
    A very modest front door
    King Charles IV of Spain, cunningly disguised as a front door
    A front door

  • Second-Empire Row in Allegheny West

    Row of houses on Lincoln Avenue

    A splendid row of Second Empire houses on Lincoln Avenue, with their wood trim picked out in tasteful polychrome paint. They were built in 1872 and 1873.

    Front doors
    Two more front doors
    The same row, but a different angle

  • Front Door on South 20th Street

    A front door with interesting woodwork and curious layers of history: note, for example, the three rows of asphalt shingles above it, which were doubtless somebody’s solution to a water-related problem.