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East Liberty truly began to develop as a commercial area in 1843, when Jacob's daughter Sarah Jane Negley married the ambitious lawyer Thomas Mellon.Mellon had first visited the area of modern-day East Liberty in 1823, when as a 10-year-old he saw the Negley mansion for the first time and decided he wanted something like it.
East Liberty Presbyterian Church: 1935 Ralph Adams Cram: Highland and Penn Avenues East Liberty 1969 East Pittsburgh U.S. Post Office 1916 James A. Wetmore: 701 Linden Avenue East Pittsburgh 2014 Ebenezer Baptist Church 1931 2001 Wylie Avenue Hill, the 1979 Demolished Edgar Thomson Works, United States Steel: 1875 (since) North Braddock
The buildings are primarily frame and brick, with notable examples of Late Victorian-style architecture. Notable non-residential buildings include the Garman Building (1890), the Hiller Building (1892), the I.O.O.F Building, the Jones Building (1906), the White House Bed and Breakfast (1855), and St. Matthews Catholic Church (1880).
Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...
Extends into Pittsburgh: 28: Fulton Log House: Fulton Log House: December 6, 1975 : Southwest of Pittsburgh on Clifton-Bridgeville Road off U.S. Route 19: Upper St. Clair Township: 29: Gardner-Bailey House: Gardner-Bailey House: October 1, 1974
George Franklin Barber (July 31, 1854 – February 17, 1915) was an American architect known for the house designs he marketed worldwide through mail-order catalogs. Barber was one of the most successful residential architects of the late Victorian period in the United States, [4] and his plans were used for houses in all 50 U.S. states, and in nations as far away as Japan and the Philippines. [4]
Motor Square Garden, also known as East Liberty Market, is a building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 5900 Baum Boulevard in the East Liberty neighborhood, it today serves as the headquarters of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Automobile Association , which ...
The building, along with a number of adjacent buildings, was bought by East Liberty Development Inc. in 2006. Despite the protests of numerous citizens, and the historical significance of the buildings, they were demolished in the 2010s. [9] The site is now home to the Penn Highland Building, a retail apartment building. [12]