Manchester & Allegheny West (North Side) Photo Tour, Pittsburgh, PA

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Manchester and Allegheny West are located on the North Side of Pittsburgh and are historic districts. The architecture is among the city's most impressive. Victorians and urban row-homes abound, many built prior to 1872, as indicated by old maps. The elegant homes of Manchester and Allegheny West once belonged to Pittsburgh's elite, but the neighborhoods fell on hard times after the turn of the century, when the automobile facilitated the move of the city's wealthy to further-out suburbs. Prior to the turn of the century, many of Pittsburgh's most affluent citizens and wealthy industrialists lived on the North Side (then Allegheny City). This wealth is demonstrated in the remarkable architecture that still exists in the neighborhoods today. In spite of a century's worth of failed urban renewal, a highway that decimated a large section of the neighborhood, white flight, changing fortunes that favored sprawl to suburban areas and the east end, blight, demolition, and crime, Manchester still exists, and much of its historic fabric remains both intact and beautifully restored. Allegheny West has been gentrified.

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• Pittsburgh
• North Side
• Manchester
• Tour
• Victorian
• Italianate
• historic
• urban
• allegheny
• west
• row-house

[YOGLLC]

Jonathon, you've just given me an unexpectedly POIGNANT gift. I'm relocating to Boulder, CO at the end of the month and your photos capture the neighborhood I've called home for the past 17 years & actually includes a shot of the "home, sweet, home" I'll be leaving behind. I'll carry the Northside, its cast of unique, memorable characters and unparalled "FanBLOOMIN'tastic" neighbors in a very special place in my heart always. Thanks to you, I now have lovely visual memory as well!

[beyondtheforest]

@YOGLLC I'm so glad you liked the video. :)  Good luck on your move. My dad is from Colorado, and he always talks about how beautiful it was.

[jwodz]

Wonderful. Thanks. Reminds me so many 19th century row houses in Pgh have porches. Remember how they lined East Street (grew up in North Hills in the 50s). Not like that in Boston where I live now. Great for socializing and more comfortable than stoops. When at my grandparents' we spent every summer evening from supper to bed on the front porch--spoke to everyone (many) who walked by. Lived in the Buhl House on North Ave (by YMCA) in the early 70s--our $110/mo apt is a $250 night B&B suite now!

[brianwelch89]

havent been to that area in years i do miss the burgh....

[cmoto1]

Cool! I didn't think of doing it as a slideshow. Great! I was just over there again yesterday. Probably my favorite neighborhood.