{"nrhp_refnum":"87001984","name":"Eberhardt and Ober Brewery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Troy Hill Rd. & Vinial St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.45743787200007,"lon":-79.99140670199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A cluster of seven buildings and five structures forming part of the Eberhardt & Ober Brewery complex, sited on a corner at the base of the Troy Hill neighborhood across from the H. J. Heinz plant in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County. The surviving buildings are of red brick and were built between 1883 and 1914.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is an artifact of Pittsburgh's early industrial history and German brewing community. It is described as the oldest of only three brewery complexes surviving in Pittsburgh and the only one on the North Side, and as the last extant facility of the independent breweries that preceded the 1899 and 1900 consolidations. Its Italianate-style Racking and Storage Building is presented as representative of industrial architecture from the 1850s through the 1880s.","narrative":"Red brick buildings on a hillside corner at the base of Troy Hill in Pittsburgh's North Side make up the surviving core of the Eberhardt & Ober Brewery. Built between 1883 and 1914, the group includes the Racking, Wash and Storage Building, a four-story structure with a pyramidal-roofed tower, and the 1897 Office Building, which carries a stone inscription reading Rebuilt 1897. Stone vaults and manmade cooling caves run into the hillside, a siting typical of breweries before refrigeration. The complex is regarded as the oldest of only three surviving brewery complexes in the city and the only one on the North Side, which was then the City of Allegheny. It is also the last remaining facility of the independent breweries that were absorbed into the Pittsburgh Brewing Company in 1899 and the Independent Brewing Company in 1900. The plant continued operating through Prohibition by producing near-beer, ice cream and cold storage. Its Italianate design represents the industrial building style of the mid to late nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1883-1925","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Romanesque, Classical, and utilitarian designs","criteria":[],"status_note":"Partly altered; some openings bricked in or boarded; the Troy Hill Road row was demolished in 1976 after roof collapse; the complex was used as warehousing space.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.046842-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87001984.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001984/6a9a763ebb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001984/6a9a763ebb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PennBrewery.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:PennBrewery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997754","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhardt_and_Ober_Brewery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5331812"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/eberhardt-and-ober-brewery-87001984/"}