I could not agree more. Uptown has lost so much of it's incredibly attractive and usually well preserved brick victorian row-house architecture over the last twenty years, it really is at a tipping point where much more destruction and demo/loss of what remains will take it to the point of no return in terms of retaining that 19th century character.
I used to work on the downtown/uptown border and watched in horror as the neighborhood was slowly but steadily decimated. In the 1980's the neighborhood was still almost completely intact.
Let's not forget that uptown was the neighborhood adjacent to the lower hill that was "saved" during the clearance of the lower hill. It's apparent to me that even if the lower hill had been saved and not demolished in the 1960's it would have disappeared piece by piece by over the subsequent fifty years. Look at the 10-15 block area above Crawford that was not cleared at that time and it is also almost entirely gone.
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Originally Posted by eschaton
Is it a condo building? I don't think the electric boxes are up yet, and the design looks like it could either be a sizable single-family house or a three unit.
The owners also demolished a house in the alley which looked pretty habitable. This just sticks in my craw more than it would even in South Side or Lawrenceville, because there's plenty of vacant lots to go around in Uptown, and it's not even like they're increasing the structural density. Plus they decided to use the mini-setback of the Womanspace annex rather than the old zero setback for placement of the house. Oh, and of course it's ugly as sin, but I don't expect anything great from infill housing in Pittsburgh unless there are design guidelines mandating it. |
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