{"nrhp_refnum":"84003081","name":"Houses at 838-862 Brightridge Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"838-862 Brightridge St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.46667112400007,"lon":-80.01745476699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two rows of two-story brick speculative rental houses on Brightridge Street (formerly Brighton Place) in the Pleasant Valley area of Pittsburgh's Northside, the former City of Allegheny. The houses were built in 1885 and are numbered 838-862 Brightridge Street.","why_significant":"The rows are presented as good local examples of 19th-century speculative rental row housing that preceded apartment construction. They are tied to the Federal Street and Pleasant Valley Street Railway, and to developer William Alexis Stone, who later launched a statewide political career. At the time they were built, they formed the largest concentration of rental housing under common ownership in Allegheny.","narrative":"Two rows of brick houses face each other along Brightridge Street, formerly Brighton Place, in the Pleasant Valley section of Pittsburgh's Northside. Built in 1885 by developer William Alexis Stone, the houses are two stories with a mansard or gable roof, arched brick openings, and identical floor plans. Each has two rooms per floor and four bedrooms, and the houses were among the first in the city of Allegheny to offer indoor plumbing. The rows were built beside the horse-drawn Federal Street and Pleasant Valley Street Railway and were marketed to tenants who could reach the mills and downtown by that line. Together they formed the largest concentration of rental housing under common ownership in Allegheny. They are regarded as good local examples of 19th-century speculative row housing that came before apartment construction. Stone later served as a congressman and as governor of Pennsylvania.","period_of_significance":"1885","architect_builder":"William A. Stone, Developer","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in the early 1970s, largely cosmetically; some deteriorated doors and windows were replaced.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.397988-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003081.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003081/d2ff91670a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003081/d2ff91670a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Housesat838-862BrightridgeStreet.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:Housesat838-862BrightridgeStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997726","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_at_838%E2%80%93862_Brightridge_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5915951"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/houses-at-838-862-brightridge-street-84003081/"}