Father Pitt in Sharon

Tag: Colonial Revival

  • Three Houses on Highland Road

    House on Highland Road

    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.

    Georgian house

    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.

    Tudor house

    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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  • Colonial Revival House on Highland Road

    House in Highland Road

    A frame Colonial that has been updated with fake siding and shutters, and perhaps stripped of a front porch, but still makes an attractive sight along the street. It was up for sale when old Pa Pitt passed by, so if you hurry…

    Front door
    Front elevation
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  • Georgian House

    A Georgian house on State Street

    A Georgian house on East State Street, nestled among the millionaires’ mansions of a generation earlier. This one was probably built in the 1920s or 1930s, when the Colonial Revival was taking on a more historically accurate form: it would look at home in Annapolis or Williamsburg.

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