Father Pitt

Tag: Scheuneman (Paul)

  • Haller Baking Company, Emsworth

    Roofline of the Haller Baking Company building

    Built in about 1933, the Haller Baking Company was designed in an up-to-the-minute Art Deco style by Paul Scheuneman. You can see a picture of the building as it originally appeared at the Avonworth Historical Society. “Oven to Home” was the company’s slogan: it delivered bread, cakes, and other baked goods straight to your house. In the 1950s the building was turned into a furniture store, with glassy additions in front that were later bricked in when it became an office.

    Haller Baking Company
    Haller Baking Company
    Haller Baking Company
    Compass rose

    Father Pitt does not know the origin of this stylish compass rose. It does not look new, but it is not in the photographs of the bakery or the furniture store that replaced it.

    Haller Baking Company
    Ornament
    Ornament
    Ornament
    Ornaments
    Haller Baking Company
    Haller Baking Company
    Haller Baking Company
    Rear of the Haller Baking Company
    Canon PowerShot SX150 IS; Kodak EasyShare Z1285; Fujifilm FinePix HS10.

    There’s not much to see in the rear of the building, but old Pa Pitt climbed the hill to document it anyway, just for the sake of completeness.

  • Two Demonstration Houses by Paul Scheuneman, Green Tree

    1138 Greentree Road

    In domestic architecture, Paul Scheuneman was a skillful exponent of what old Pa Pitt calls the Fairy-Tale Style: designs that emphasize a fantastically romantic vision of the past rather than historically accurate architecture.

    The Arkansas Soft Pine Mansion was a demonstration home sponsored by the Pittsburgh Press and the Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau. The use of Arkansas soft pine for interior paneling, was, of course, a prominent feature of the house.

    1138 Greentree Road
    1138 Greentree Road

    Across the street is another demonstration house designed by Scheuneman:

    1125 Greentree Road

    “The American Home” opened for inspection in 1935. It was sponsored by the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and General Electric, and of course General Electric appliances were installed wherever electric appliances could be demonstrated.

    The American Home