Highland Park Residential Historic District

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.