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Schenley Farms

Schenley Farms Historic District
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Looking Northeast along 5th Avenue in the Schenley Farms Historic District
Schenley Farms Historic District is located in Pittsburgh
Schenley Farms Historic District
Schenley Farms Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Schenley Farms Historic District
Schenley Farms Historic District is located in the US
Schenley Farms Historic District
Location Roughly bounded by Andover Terrace, Centre, Bellefield, and Parkman Avenues, Dithridge, Thackeray, Forbes and Mawhinney, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates 40°26′39.99″N 79°57′17.40″W / 40.4444417°N 79.9548333°W / 40.4444417; -79.9548333Coordinates: 40°26′39.99″N 79°57′17.40″W / 40.4444417°N 79.9548333°W / 40.4444417; -79.9548333
Area 170 acres (0.69 km2)
NRHP Reference # 83002213
Significant dates
Added to NRHP July 22, 1983
Designated CPHD Shenley Farms May 1982 and Oakland Civic Center, April 7, 1992
Designated PHLF 1976

The Schenley Farms Historic District, also referred to as the Schenley Farms–Oakland Civic District, is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places that is located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

It comprises two separately designated City of Pittsburgh historic districts: the Oakland Civic Center Historic District consisting of publicly and privately owned institutional buildings, and the adjacent Schenley Farms Historic District consisting mainly of a planned residential development of the early 20th Century. The Schenley Farms Historic District is roughly bounded by Forbes Avenue including the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh on the south; South Dithridge and North Bellefield on the east, extending to include St. Paul's Cathedral and Rectory on Fifth Avenue and North Craig Street; Bigelow Boulevard, Andover Road, and Bryn Mawr Road on the northwest; and Thackeray Street through to Fifth Avenue on the southwest.

Noted for its late 19th And 20th Century Revivals architecture, it is home to a large portion of the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The district comprises 154 contributing buildings, 31 of which are cultural or institutional buildings and 123 of which are residences in the northwest portion of the district. The historic district is a noted example of community planning and development following the City Beautiful movement that guided city planning and urban design in the United States from the mid-1890s through the first decade of the 20th century. The City Beautiful movement favored boulevards, parks, and formal civic buildings in the beaux-arts style.

In 1905, Franklin Nicola put forth a development plan in the City Beautiful style for Oakland, which included civic, social, residential, and educational zones along Bigelow Boulevard which ran through the heart of the neighborhood. The proposal centered on a series of monumental buildings created in styles evoking ancient Greece and the Italian Renaissance. Although Nicola's plan was not fully implemented, including a never-constructed Oakland town hall, it produced such landmarks as the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, the Masonic Temple (now the University of Pittsburgh's Alumni Hall), and the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.


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