by Nick Smerker | Nov 10, 2020
913 Brighton Road Introduction John Davidson, a saddler, commissioned construction of 913 Brighton Road in 1870 or 1871. The house was built on a piece of ground that Davidson had purchased for $2760 in 1860. Davidson had 913 Brighton Road built in the Italianate...
by Nick Smerker | Nov 10, 2020
719 Brighton Road Introduction 719 Brighton Road is a three story stone and brick Renaissance Revival style house occupying a 50′ wide by 198′ deep lot located in the Allegheny West section of the city of Pittsburgh. Letitia Holmes, a wealthy widow, had 719 Brighton...
by Nick Smerker | Nov 9, 2020
709 Brighton Road Introduction 709 Brighton Road is a three story red brick house occupying a 135’11” wide by 198′ deep lot located in the Allegheny West section of the city of Pittsburgh. Harry Darlington, a millionaire industrialist who lived nearby at 721 Brighton...
by Nick Smerker | Nov 9, 2020
705 Brighton Road Introduction Pittsburgh iron and steel manufacturer B.F. Jones commissioned construction of 705 Brighton Road in 1892 or 1893 as a home for his son-in-law and daughter, William W. and Alice Jones Willock. The house was built in the Chateauesque...
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