{"nrhp_refnum":"84000533","name":"Hoene-Werle House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1313-1315 Allegheny Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.451345719000074,"lon":-80.01626270199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, six-and-one-half bay brick double house at 1313-1315 Allegheny Avenue in the Manchester section of Pittsburgh's Northside, with a central U-shaped courtyard at the rear. It was built about 1887.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house has no peer in its neighborhood because of its unusual molded brick and millwork cornice, full-width porch with breezeway, and protected courtyard. It describes the design as an early example of city housing that provided light and air to every room, distinct from the mass-produced pattern-book houses common in Manchester. It also notes the building was built for two German immigrant owners.","narrative":"Built about 1887 on Allegheny Avenue in Pittsburgh's Manchester section, this three-story brick double house has six and one-half bays and a U-shaped plan that encloses a private rear courtyard reached through an arched breezeway. Its most distinctive feature is a massive molded brick and millwork cornice, with a wheel-patterned pediment, sunburst brick squares, and a basketweave frieze. The full-width porch, with three small pediments echoing the cornice, is also notable for its millwork. The house was commissioned by two German immigrants: Herman H. Hoene, a partner in a downtown Pittsburgh piano and organ business, and Fred H. Werle, a druggist from the City of Allegheny. The courtyard design gave light and air to every room, and the building is regarded as an exceptional example of late nineteenth-century city housing in Pittsburgh. After abandonment and city ownership in the early 1970s, the porch collapsed; it was rebuilt after restoration in 1982 using a salvaged pediment and surviving shadow lines.","period_of_significance":"ca 1887","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Abandoned and acquired by the City in the early 1970s; restored after acquisition in late 1982, with the porch rebuilt.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.743297-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84000533.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000533/c1f5333173-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000533/c1f5333173-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoene-WerleHouse.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:Hoene-WerleHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78002334","name":"Allegheny West Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/allegheny-west-historic-district-78002334/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997688","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoene-Werle_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5876456"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/hoene-werle-house-84000533/"}