Father Pitt

Tag: Linkenheimer (A. E.)

  • City View School

    City View School

    A. E. Linkenheimer was the architect of this tiny school,1 which appears to have had two classrooms. Tiny as it was, he still made it into a splendid fantasy castle. It is now well preserved as a funeral home.

    City View School, front elevation
    Entrance
    Keystone with date 1890

    The city counts “Spring Hill–City View” as one neighborhood for planning purposes, but the street signs at major intersections do make the distinction, identifying the neighborhood as either “Spring Hill” or “City View.”

    City View School through a tree
    1. Philadelphia Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide, July 2, 1890, p. 388. “At Allegheny, A. E. Linkenheimer, 141 Federal street, has prepared plans for…the City View school house, cost $6,000.” ↩︎

  • Alpha Apartments, Homewood

    Alpha Apartments

    This apartment building with Renaissance details was built in about 1905. The architect was A. E. Linkenheimer,1 about whom old Pa Pitt knows very little so far.

    Alpha Apartments

    The name of the building is interesting, because it is the name of a project that was planned at about the same time nearby at the intersection of Penn and East End Avenues, where Titus de Bobula was to supervise an immense $600,000 Alpha Apartment Hotel. That project fell through; at the moment Father Pitt does not know that the name was anything more than coincidence.

    Alpha Apartments
    Front entrance

    This building is under sentence of condemnation, but it does not appear to be in such bad shape that it could not be rescued. Homewood is not rich, but there has been some renovation going on in nearby streets.

    Alpha Apartments

    The Braddock Avenue side has its own neatly symmetrical façade.

    Rear section
    Side entrance
    Canon PowerShot SX20 IS.
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