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3 unusual facts about Westinghouse Park


North Point Breeze

The neighborhood was the site of the estate of the entrepreneur George Westinghouse, converted after 1918 into Westinghouse Park as well as the estate of Henry J. Heinz.

Point Breeze, Pittsburgh

It is also the home to a popular Pittsburgh Public Schools elementary school, Linden Academy, the Sterrett Middle School, Westinghouse Park, Mellon Park, and the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Both of John Edgar Wideman's memoirs, Brothers and Keepers and Hoop Roots, use North Point Breeze's Westinghouse Park as a setting, as well as in his fictional Homewood Trilogy.



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