Highland Park is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Highland Park, the neighborhood, fully encompasses the park with the same name. The neighborhood has 6,395 residents, according to the 2010 United States Census. It occupies 748 acres (3.03 km2) built around the 380-acre (1.5 km2) park (also called Highland Park). East Liberty and Larimer neighborhoods border it to the south, Morningside to the west, Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar to the east, and the Allegheny River to the north. The neighborhood is set apart from surrounding areas by Heth’s Run, which separates Highland Park from Morningside to the west, Negley Run, which separates it from Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar to the east, and Larimer to the south. The only direct land routes to Highland Park are from East Liberty via Negley Avenue, Highland Avenue, and several other streets.
Description
The first permanent European settler in Highland Park was Alexander Negley, a Swiss settler. In 1778, Negley purchased a 278-acre farm along the Allegheny River that he called “Fertile Bottom” and extended over much of what is now Highland Park north of Bryant Street. His son Jacob married Barbara Winebiddle, the daughter of other local landowners, in 1795 and 1799 and purchased the 443-acre farm (called “Heth’s Delight”) that adjoined his father’s farm to the south and west. Jacob and Barbara Negley built a brick house at the corner of Stanton and Negley Avenues in 1808, which became the seat of a substantial land holding when the two farms were combined upon the death of Alexander Negley in 1809.
Jacob Negley was one of the East Liberty Valley’s most prominent citizens in the early nineteenth century. The ancient river bottom lies north of Squirrel Hill in the eastern section of Pittsburgh, PA and provides relief from the generally hilly topography of the city. The earliest highway from the east, the Greensburg & Pittsburgh Turnpike (now Penn Avenue), which followed the line (the Forbes Road) that the British cut during the French and Indian War, ran east-west through the East Liberty Valley. Jacob Negley won the contract to pave a five-mile turnpike section between 1813 and 1819. He played a substantial role in founding a village in East Liberty, building a steam-powered grist mill on the highway in 1816, establishing a bank, and helping to found the East Liberty Presbyterian Church in 1819. His daughter Sara Jane married the lawyer Thomas Mellon, patriarch of the banking family, in 1843. Bed Bug Exterminator Pittsburgh
Historical Event
On August 30, 2007, the Highland Park Residential Historic District was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district encompasses the entire neighborhood of Highland Park: its western border consists of Chislett Street (from Stanton Avenue on the south to Hampton Street on the north) and Heth’s Run (or, more specifically, King Avenue and Cordova Street, which are just to the east of Heth’s Run). Its southern and eastern border consists of Stanton Avenue, and its northern border is the Allegheny River. Academy Award-winning actor Gene Kelly and acclaimed jazz singer Billy Eckstine were both born and raised here.
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