{"nrhp_refnum":"07000888","name":"Highland Park Residential Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Highland Park, Heth's Run and Heth's Ave., Chislett St., Stanton Ave. and Jackson ST.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.47518906500005,"lon":-79.92158700366083,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of roughly 1,967 resources, mostly two- to two-and-one-half-story houses, on a hill above the Allegheny River in the East End of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Highland Park. Development began in the late nineteenth century and peaked in the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant under Criterion C for its range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural styles, which reflect the neighborhood's growth and maturity. Most of the buildings are residential, with a small number of commercial, educational and religious buildings. Its streetcar-era speculative housing and mansions by notable architects, including Frederick Scheibler, Frederick Sauer and Alden & Harlow, are cited as key examples.","narrative":"Residential district on a hill above the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh's East End, adjoining Highland Park. Building began after the Civil War and peaked between 1900 and 1910, when developers erected speculative houses in entire blocks along streetcar lines, many of them two-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival houses set back behind front yards. Earlier survivors include an 1860s Italianate house and a Second Empire house rebuilt in 1880 after a fire. Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque mansions line North Highland Avenue, two of them designed by Frederick Sauer. Frederick Scheibler also designed several houses here in the early 1920s. The district is significant for the range of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century styles it contains, which together document how the neighborhood grew after electric streetcar service opened the East End to middle-class residents. Of its 1,967 resources, about 1,764 are counted as contributing.","period_of_significance":"c. 1860 - c. 1940","architect_builder":"Sauer, Frederick; Scheibler, Frederick; Alden & Harlow; Carpenter & Crocker","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate, Second Empire, Richardsonian Romanesque, Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.22074-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/07000888.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000888/255ddfbd69-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000888/255ddfbd69-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HighlandParkResidentialHistoricDistrict.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HighlandParkResidentialHistoricDistrict.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997634","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park_Residential_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5759023"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/highland-park-residential-historic-district-07000888/"}