Carved brackets over the front door of a Victorian rowhouse on the South Side.
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Carved Brackets
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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:
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House on Carson Street
Carson Street is the commercial spine of the South Side, but occasionally we run across a house left over from the time before Carson was almost exclusively commercial. Most of them have small offices on the ground floors now, but they retain their domestic external appearance. This house strikes Father Pitt as a halfway point between Second Empire and Italianate styles in local rowhouses; it’s notable for its prickly decorative ironwork on the roof.
