The walls display framed photos of Veterans from all branches of service.

“No-nonsense diner serving breakfast and simple comfort fare in a cozy setting.”



The walls display framed photos of Veterans from all branches of service.

“No-nonsense diner serving breakfast and simple comfort fare in a cozy setting.”



An interesting building built during the Civil War (1862) – you don’t see many round corner buildings in brick.

Local artist William Pfahl painted this interesting building in 2017 as one of his cityscapes. A link to an article about Bill’s paintings. Bill is a fellow retired city art teacher. And link 2011 blog post about him painting the Sixteenth Street Bridge.

ROUND CORNER HOTEL – LAWRENCEVILLE.30x48in. Oil. 2017. SOLD.

The Round Corner Hotel building is the home of Esquina Cantina -Mexican Restaurant
Interested in building radial brick work ? A video with instruction

I’d parked on Butler Street in Lawrenceville. Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream opened at two.


A slow week for furniture on the curb. Have I stayed home more? Less driving around?
Perhaps I should start a spin-off blog for my abandoned furniture finds over the years.

Lawrenceville Dressers
I looked it up as suddenly the word dresser seemed a funny name for these wooden items. “What Is a Chest of Drawers? A chest of drawers is distinctly different from a dresser in regard to shape and form. Instead of being long, short, and deep, they are tall and narrow. While dressers feature multiple columns of drawers, a chest of drawers has just one single row, stacked vertically.”
You might ask-
What is the difference between a dresser and a bureau? Click for answer
I went to the Carnegie Library Lawrenceville Branch today to return a book and get some knitting patterns printed. Everyone is always so helpful. They were gracious to give me this bright red bag to hold all my papers and books.
I do love my library.

All donations will be matched until September 30th!
ABOUT ACLA_ Allegheny County Library Association
“ACLA provides and promotes the highest quality public library service possible for all residents of Allegheny County through collaboration, cooperation and coordination”
You can click here to see my other Urban Madonna blog posts. I noticed that a chain link fence is often in the image.

In Lawrenceville. Steve suggested “breakfast out” Sunday morning. He’d heard about Barb’s Diner.
Having just posted two days honoring Veterans on the blog it was serendipity to find these two displays on the wall that stay up all year long.





We returned to Lawrenceville where we started our library adventure. It was the branch where we’d gotten our CLP Passports and our first stamp. Librarian Steve gave us the forms to fill out. He offered to stamp our passports but we already had the stamp. He stamped our notes pages with the extra large stamper though! A bonus stamp. He also emailed us the pdf brochures about each library branch we visited. Thank you.





What a fun time Jen and I had driving all over the city, collecting the stamps at the nineteen branches within the city limits. It was her idea to participate and I’m so glad she invited me along.
