Highland Road runs through a neighborhood of high-class houses put up in the 1920s or thereabouts. Here are three of them. Above and below, two approaches to the increasingly popular Colonial Revival.
The exceptionally fine Georgian mansion above, according to the Sharon Historical Society’s “Roaring Twenties” tour, was designed by “Wolfe & Wolfe of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.” That would be the father-and-son team of T. B. and Lawrence Wolfe, who designed many millionaires’ mansions and distinguished churches in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area.
Here is a house with Tudor half-timbering that is a good representative of what old Pa Pitt calls the Fairy-Tale Style, where historical accuracy is abandoned and the priority is making the house look like an illustration of an ideal house in a children’s book.
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