{"nrhp_refnum":"97000515","name":"Scott, James, House","other_names":["Altholl"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5635 Stanton Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.47143934700006,"lon":-79.92560968699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-and-a-half-story red brick Colonial Revival house with a detached carriage house at 5635 Stanton Avenue in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The house was built in 1900 and the carriage house in 1902.","why_significant":"The house and carriage house are argued to be prominent high-style examples of Colonial Revival architecture in Highland Park. They are also associated with James Scott, a Scottish-born superintendent of Carnegie Steel blast furnaces whose technical work in the steel industry is described as a significant contribution.","narrative":"Built in 1900 for steel executive James Scott, this large brick house on Stanton Avenue in Pittsburgh's Highland Park neighborhood is a red brick, almost cubical Colonial Revival building with slate hip roof, sandstone foundation and a reconstructed Ionic porch. A carriage house followed in 1902 at the rear of the lot. Scott, a native of Scotland, rose from machinist to general superintendent of Carnegie Steel's blast furnaces over a career of about thirty-five years. The house is regarded as one of the most prominent Colonial Revival houses in the neighborhood, and the buildings are listed for their architecture and for their association with Scott. The house was also the setting for a 1906 elopement of Scott's daughter with the son of Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, which drew wide national press coverage. Later the building served as a Jewish children's home and then as apartments.","period_of_significance":"1900-1923","architect_builder":"Rose and Fisher, Inc. (builder); architect unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The buildings were rehabilitated in 1996 and remain in use as apartments, with eleven apartments in the main house and three units in the carriage house at the time of purchase in 1995.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.832741-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/97000515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000515/fb7ac3aac3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000515/fb7ac3aac3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesScottHouse.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:JamesScottHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000888","name":"Highland Park Residential Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/highland-park-residential-historic-district-07000888/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997752","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6142869"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/scott-james-house-97000515/"}