Father Pitt in Sharon

Tag: Tudor Architecture

  • Morris Bachman Mansion

    Morris Bachman mansion

    Charles F. Owsley, the son of the Charles H. Owsley who was responsible for many of Sharon’s most distinguished buildings of a generation earlier, designed this hybrid of English cottage and Tudor castle for Morris Bachman, who unexpectedly died in 1909 before the house was completed. (The word “unexpectedly” was probably unnecessary there.) For many decades now it has been an old-age home called Clepper Manor. From a photograph published in 1911, we can see that it was still under construction just after the Kranz house next door was completed.

    Morris Bachman mansion and front gate
    Morris Bachman mansion

  • 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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