The East Northside House Tour is growing. This year, the tour of four* neighborhoods featured artful houses with impressive views of the Pittsburgh skyline.
Photos by Ashlee Green
The East Northside House Tour is growing. In its second year, the tour was organized by three community groups: the Community Alliance of Spring Garden and East Deutschtown, the Spring Hill Civic League, and the Troy Hill Citizens Inc., who joined together to showcase the similarities of their neighborhoods.
Six houses and six points of interests were featured on the tour, and a trolley service was available along the tour route with support from WesBanco. Beverage tastings were available throughout the tour from Threadbare Cider and Mead and Wigle Whiskey.
This classic craftsman-style house was renovated last year by Steel Standard LLC.
The inside is full of natural light and two pastel pink chairs. One is vintage and the other is a replicate.
When the house was renovated, the kitchen and dining rooms were swapped.
Homeowners commissioned this bright, eye catching painting from artist Baron Batch.
The best view of all three stories of this original stairwell is from the very top.
Lookout Street Park and Garden is nestled in at the edge of Troy Hill.
Trolley service was sponsored by WesBanco.
The original house now known as “Little House Big Art” was built in 1926.
Inside, guests can find a rainbow of colors and a functional space for classes, events, and parties.
Classes offered at Little House Big Art include pottery on the wheel.
Bud the Cat enjoying the company.
Northside artist Sandy Kessler-Kaminski painted the epic garage door of this property on Spring Hill.
The second-floor patio offers an awesome view.
Fluorescent lights were specially made for the owner so he could recognize his house from downtown.
The owner’s love of literature, art, and travel is apparent in this bedroom nook.
Tour guests were offered two cider options at this stop.
Kyle Ethan Fischer, gardener for the property, points out the Japanese moss garden.
The garden includes “little bits of whimsy,” according to Fischer, like this vintage teapot.
This Spring Garden home used to be known as part of “Brewer’s Row,” where neighborhood brewers lived in the early 2000s.
Subtle pops of color and vintage finds are strewn throughout the kitchen and home.
The attic is a space for family movie nights with a projector and surround-sound speakers.
A stream used to run along the spot where this converted factory space, made up of three buildings, now stands.
The building is located in East Deutschtown, a former hotbed of animal farms and slaughterhouses.
Inside, guests can see the raised windows, which are placed 27-feet up from the floor.
These circular dimples in the floor are a leftover from a former soap factory, where drums full of lye used to rest.
The owner of this home in Troy Hill views house renovations as an art project.
The kitchen was repainted and old cabinet doors were removed to give it a new look.
A warm color palette permeates the bedroom and guest room.
This small, octagon-shaped window highlights the house’s charm.
The backyard is being replaced with clover to accommodate pollinators.
*This post was updated on 6/26/2019 to clarify that the tour was of four neighborhoods. It was organized by three community groups.
