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History of 851 Beech Avenue

2013

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History of 851 Beech Avenue
  • Title
  • History of 851 Beech Avenue
  • Creator
  • Peterson, Carol (author) (researcher)
  • Date
  • 2013
  • Identifier
  • 31735047448703
  • Description
  • Contains a detailed review of the history, age, and ownership of 851 Beech Avenue, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alfred McDonald constructed the home in 1869. McDonald, a building contractor, constructed the house as a speculative venture. The house is a good example of the Italianate style applied to a somewhat narrow urban house form, with arched front door surround and window hoods, rounded ornamental panels on its front door surround, and paired brackets below the box gutter and along the roofline on the east elevation. Pittsburgh attorney Joseph J. Siebeneck bought the building from McDonald, and lived there with his wife for 27 years until she died in 1877 and he died in 1896. Charles Holmes purchased the home in 1899. Holmes and his wife, Sallie, lived in the house into the early 1910s. In 1913 Charles sold the property to Ann Lattner Gerlach, whose family owned the house until 2007.
  • Extent
  • 1 online resource (11 leaves)
  • Type
  • text
  • Subject
  • North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc
    North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)--History
  • Geographic Subjects
  • North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Language
  • eng
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Historic Pittsburgh Book Collection
  • Rights Information
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