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  • A Short Stroll on Longuevue Drive in Beverly Heights, Mount Lebanon

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    We’ve seen some of these houses on Longuevue Drive before; others are making their first appearance here. Father Pitt’s ambition is to document every house in the Mount Lebanon Historic District. If he ever succeeds in balancing that ambition with all his other ambitions, he may get it done. Meanwhile, here are a few beautiful houses to enjoy, and we need no more excuse than that for these pictures.

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    To avoid weighing down the front page for a week and a half, we’ll put the rest of the pictures below the metaphorical fold.

    Many more pictures…

  • Longuevue Drive in Beverly Heights

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    Longuevue Drive is one of the streets in Beverly Heights, one of the plans from the 1920s that make the Mount Lebanon Historic District a museum of interwar domestic architecture. The variety of styles is delightful. One gets the impression that all the rules have been repealed, and you can have whatever house your most childish fantasy specifies, from a French château to a fairy-tale witch’s cottage.

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    We have dozens of pictures if you choose to see them, but because there are so many, we put them behind a “more” link.

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