[PRCo] Open space, east end Pittsburgh

[Schneider Fred]

Found it.   The Frick family had 14 acres in the middle of Oakland  
and that is what the Cathedral of Learning was built upon in 1930

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh


And something else.   The huge Homewood Cemetery along Forbes Avenue  
just short of Wilkinsburg.   We find in the attached item from their  
website that it was formed in 1878 when the
cemtery bought 178 acres from the estate of Judge William Wilkins.    
Read the story that this link leads you to.   It tells all about the  
problems inherent with large cemeteries inside our cities.   Of  
course Homewood was then in the country outside of Pittsburgh.

http://homewoodcemetery.org/grounds.html

Here is a link to the history of Frick Park.   Frick gave the city  
150 acres behind his home and a $2 million endowment.   The money was  
used to buy more land as it came available.   Today it is the largest  
city park, with 600 acres.    (That 1.136 square miles if I did the  
math right.)   Remember that this was open land.   If you take the  
tour of Clayton, the Frick home, they will tell you how many  
millionaires lived in the neighborhood.   They all had big estates.    
Westinghouse, down the street from Frick, had a trolley running in  
his back yard.   I have a print of his experimental AC single truck  
car in the back yard.   Everybody should have a back yard big enough  
for a trolley museum!

http://www.pittsburghparks.org/History22.php