The South Side Market House, designed originally by Charles Bickel, and given its current form by Stanley Roush, taken on film in glorious black and white. We also have color pictures and some historical photos of the South Side Market House.
Originally a store with upstairs living quarters. The corner location made a side entrance for the living quarters possible.
Sunlight pours into the long passageway that connects the Steel Plaza subway station to Grant Street.
A few Victorian houses on the edge of Manchester.
The one at right was originally a double house, now apartments.
These two are also divided into apartments, though we wouldn’t know it from the front.
We’ve seen the E. M. Butz house before; now here it is again captured on film in glorious black and white.
A parade of the largest, though not the tallest, monolithic columns in the world.
It is proposed to demolish this building and replace it with something much larger, so Father Pitt brings it to your attention again. It was built as the College Club, a residence for college women, in 1931. The architect was Lamont Button, and to old Pa Pitt’s eyes he came up with a timeless design—one that would have looked good in colonial Annapolis or Williamsburg, and looks just as good in our twenty-first century. We have captured a few of the details so that it will not pass entirely from memory if it vanishes from Craig Street.
We have more pictures of the College Club in late winter and in the fall.
Even fifteen years ago this church might have been rescued, but now it has become such a picturesque roofless ruin that the best thing might be to stabilize it, as is often done with ruined Gothic churches in Europe, and leave it as a tourist attraction for moody poetic types. According to the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, it was built in 1901, and the architect was Charles M. Bartberger, the younger of the two Charles Bartbergers.
