by Nick Smerker | Oct 22, 2020
852 N Lincoln Avenue Introduction Theodore H. Nevin and his brother-in-law, John Irwin Jr., had the row of houses at 850-858 North Lincoln Avenue built between 1872 and 1873. The houses were built on property that Nevin and other Allegheny City businessmen had...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 22, 2020
849 N Lincoln Avenue Introduction In 1907, retired Pittsburgh industrialist George Harton Singer created the house that is today known as 849 North Lincoln Avenue when he combined two attached 40-year-old homes at 847 and 849 Lincoln Avenue. Singer spent $8,000,...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 20, 2020
845 N Lincoln Avenue Introduction John W. Simpson, a flour and grain merchant, had the original house at 845 North Lincoln Avenue built between 1864 and 1865. The original house on the lot had a two-story front section and a long two-story rear ell. It was probably...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 20, 2020
844 N Lincoln Avenue Introduction 844 North Lincoln is a three story red brick house occupying a 24′ wide by 140’9.625″ deep lot located in the Allegheny West section of Pittsburgh. Hugh Knox, a commission merchant, flour dealer and coal company manager, had 844 North...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 20, 2020
842 N Lincoln Avenue Introduction 842 North Lincoln Avenue is a two story red brick house occupying an irregularly shaped lot located in the Allegheny West section of the city of Pittsburgh. Robert Graham, an Irish-born rope maker, built 842 North Lincoln Avenue...
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