Ready to go! Porter and I headed from Braddock down Waverly to find the Arden Apartments, designed 1904.
I knew this building, but didn't recognize it as a Scheibler building at first.
This photo from Martin Aurand's book on Scheibler shows what the Arden Apartments must have looked like not too long ago, with a stained glass entry depicting a ship.
Aurand writes that the ship was copied out of a book on contemporary English architecture and decoration. He suggests that this was Scheibler's first custom-fabricated art glass.
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| From the book "The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler," published in 1994. |
Back to today… The ship is gone.
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| rear |
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| side |
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| Side, and original red color |
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| We wandered inside a little. |
FWIW, the owner is sympathetic to the fact that this is a Scheibler.
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