Archive for the ‘Point Breeze’ Category

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Frick Park Gatehouse

June 2, 2009

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In the early evening, the Frick Park gatehouse at Reynolds Street and Homewood Avenue seems like the portal to an enchanted forest.

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Museum as Art

February 18, 2008

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The Frick Art Museum in Point Breeze was built as a home for Helen Clay Frick’s art collection. It’s a small collection, but chosen with good taste–a Boucher here, a Reynolds there, and a roomful of priceless medieval religious art. The building itself is less than forty years old, but the timeless design could easily have been a Renaissance palace.

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A Proper School

December 9, 2007

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The Linden Avenue School in Point Breeze. Learning must be something beautiful and important if it takes place in a building like this.