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May 16, 2012, 12:45 PM
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/blogger-champions-pittsburgh-regions-old-architecture-636059/
Blogger champions Pittsburgh region's old architecture
May 16, 2012 12:10 am
By Diana Nelson Jones / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A photo of a red-brick, gabled house in Braddock illustrates one of Jonathon Denson's blog posts, at the bottom of which he wrote, "P.S. I would be very pleased if someone with money stepped in and saved that ridiculously awesome house."
Taxes on the house, at 210 Talbot Ave., have not been paid since 2009, according to the county website. It was built in 1875 and has a gable over the middle of five upper windows and a porch that runs the width of the house.
In the image on the county's website, the hedges are clipped. When Mr. Denson snapped his recent photo, the foliage had grown wild, obscuring a view of the first floor.
It is one of many buildings and neighborhoods Mr. Denson, a Michigan native, champions on his blog, Discovering Historic Pittsburgh at www.jonathondenson.com.
The 27-year-old social worker moved to the city four years ago with no local contacts or a job.
"I went on a road trip after college, and I loved St. Louis," he said, "but then I came east and went through Pittsburgh and I really loved Pittsburgh, the hills and the houses perched on them."
He decided to stay.
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Discovering Historic Pittsburgh (http://www.jonathondenson.com)
Blogger champions Pittsburgh region's old architecture
May 16, 2012 12:10 am
By Diana Nelson Jones / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A photo of a red-brick, gabled house in Braddock illustrates one of Jonathon Denson's blog posts, at the bottom of which he wrote, "P.S. I would be very pleased if someone with money stepped in and saved that ridiculously awesome house."
Taxes on the house, at 210 Talbot Ave., have not been paid since 2009, according to the county website. It was built in 1875 and has a gable over the middle of five upper windows and a porch that runs the width of the house.
In the image on the county's website, the hedges are clipped. When Mr. Denson snapped his recent photo, the foliage had grown wild, obscuring a view of the first floor.
It is one of many buildings and neighborhoods Mr. Denson, a Michigan native, champions on his blog, Discovering Historic Pittsburgh at www.jonathondenson.com.
The 27-year-old social worker moved to the city four years ago with no local contacts or a job.
"I went on a road trip after college, and I loved St. Louis," he said, "but then I came east and went through Pittsburgh and I really loved Pittsburgh, the hills and the houses perched on them."
He decided to stay.
...
Discovering Historic Pittsburgh (http://www.jonathondenson.com)
