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912 Beech Avenue
ca. 1990-1998
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Title
912 Beech Avenue: a researched history
Creator
Peterson, Carol (author) (researcher)
Date
ca. 1990-1998
Identifier
31735047448620
Description
Contains a detailed review of the history, age, and ownership of 912 Beech Avenue (originally 47 Beech Street), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a three-story red brick house occupying a 30' wide by 100' deep lot located in the Allegheny West section of Pittsburgh. John S. Bell, an Irish-born dry goods merchant, and his wife Eliza had house built in 1869 or 1870. The Bells and their children and servant lived there for only a year or less before they sold the house and moved to Bellevue. Henry Meyer, an attorney who owned the building between 1886 and 1909, had the house updated in the late 1880's. Meyer's alterations, which included a new facade, stairway, doors, mantels, woodwork, and hardwood floors, incorporated fashionable home features of the time while leaving intact a number of items that date to the time of the house's construction. Other early occupants included the family of Moses Bauer, a Prussian immigrant jewelery store owner who rented the house in 1880. The house had 19 owners and was converted to a rooming house by the late 1920's, and was allowed to deteriorate until its 1991 restoration.
Extent
1 online resource (6 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
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