Image:SchenleyFarmsHistoricalMarker.JPG

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Image
• File history
• File links
• Metadata

Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels
Full resolution‎ (2,816 × 2,112 pixels, file size: 677 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You may select the license of your choice.

[edit] Text of Accompanying Historical Marker

SCHENLEY FARMS HISTORIC DISTRICT

The residential portion of the Schenley Farms National Register of Historic Places District is the vision of Franklin F. Nicola, who purchased the land from Mary Schenley's estate in 1903.

Architecturally, the District is an archive of early twentieth-century revival residential styes designed by prominent Pittsburgh architects such s Alden & Harlow, Thorsten Billquit, Henry Hornbostel, Ingham & Boyd, Janssen & Abbot, Kiehnel & Elliott, Maximilian Nirdlinger, Rutan & Russel, Louis S. Stevens, Vrydaugh & Wolfe, and here The Twentieth Century Club, George H. Schwan, 1910, encapsulated and enlarged by Janssen & Cocken, 1929-1930.

The streets are named for American and British romantic literary figures--Francis Parkman, Edward Lytton, and Alfred Tennyson. A wide boulevard, typical of City Beautiful planning, separates the residences from the prestigious array of educational cultural, and institutional buildings in the adjacent Oakland Civic Center City of Pittsburgh Historic District. This unusual blending of urban and suburban qualities, within an impressive architectural context, makes Schenley Farms a significant document of early twentieth-century.

PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION, 1976

CITY OF PITTSBURGH HISTORIC DISTRICT, 1982

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORICAL PLACES, 1983

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

• Search for duplicate files
• Edit this file using an external application

  See the setup instructions for more information.

File links

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.