A circa-1930 in orange brick: a vacant office building in McKeesport, a former Montgomery Ward store.

Do you love this color!

 

I found this assertion on Facebook of all places that the building was a Montgomery Ward store erected circa 1930. It checks out!: Via Proquest I found an announcement in the "Chain Store News" column in a digital scan of the August 1, 1929, issue of Women's Wear Daily that Montgomery Ward had purchased property at this site with plans to build a three-story store.

 

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In downtown McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on July 1st, 2019, a building on the east side of Sheridan Street between 5th Avenue and Lysle Boulevard.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Allegheny (county) (7013272)

• McKeesport (2090470)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• abandoned buildings (300008055)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• brownish orange (300126858)

• department stores (300005344)

• doorways (300002767)

• exterior walls (300002523)

• office buildings (300007043)

• orange yellow (300128002)

• remodeling (300135427)

• stains (damage) (300379497)

 

Wikidata items:

• 1 July 2019 (Q57350260)

• 1930s in architecture (Q16482516)

• July 1 (Q2700)

• July 2019 (Q47087600)

• Montgomery Ward (Q3246929)

• Pittsburgh metropolitan area (Q7199458)

• Treaty of Fort Stanwix (Q246501)

• vacant building (Q56056305)

• Western Pennsylvania (Q7988152)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Brick walls (sh85016796)

• Office buildings—Pennsylvania (sh91002286)

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