Father Pitt

Tag: Front Doors

  • Carved Brackets on Carson Street

    This doorway could use some fresh paint and a little wood repair, but it would certainly be worth preserving the Victorian carved ornaments.

  • Front Door, 17th Street, South Side

    Front door on 17th Street

    In the South Side, 17th Street is the line between Old Birmingham and New Birmingham: you can tell because the street grid is broken at that point, and east-west streets have to jog to continue on their way. This house is on the Old Birmingham side.

  • Front Door on Sarah Street

    Front door on Sarah Street

  • Front Door on Sarah Street

    Front door on Sarah Street

  • Carved Brackets

    Carved brackets over the front door of a Victorian rowhouse on the South Side.

  • Front Doors of the South Side

    The famous Victorian front doors of the South Side are featured on posters and in picture books on coffee tables all over western Pennsylvania. There is an endless variety to the woodwork on these South Side rowhouses. Old Pa Pitt was out walking on the South Side and decided to concentrate on doors: here is the collection he made in just half an hour’s stroll. Click on any picture to enlarge it.

    Many of these doorways have decorative stained-glass transoms over the door, often with the address worked into the glass:

    Of course, no collection of South Side front doors would be complete without a Kool Vent awning on an alley house:

  • Vintage Doorway, Vintage Camera

    A beautifully proportioned entrance on North Avenue in the Mexican War Streets. If the picture looks like something from the 1930s, it isn’t. But the camera is. It’s an old Agfa Isolette, using Croatian film whose formula hasn’t changed since this camera was new.