Greenlawn Place -- Part of Pittsburgh's History

Greenlawn Place is a one block-long private street and the entire block once was the home of H. J. Heinz called just Greenlawn. The estate included a large, sprawling house, carriage house (now 8 apartments) and his private clock museum. At his death in 1919, the house was left to the city, and subsequently sold to a contractor who razed the house, used the woodwork to create the apartments in the carriage house, and then joined the ends of the horseshoe driveway into the little street behind the wrought-iron fence. The ends of the drives form the openings to Penn Avenue and each end has a pair of stone pillars. Greenlawn Place follows the numbering and uses the Penn Avenue address. Otherwise, no one would find us!
The contractor built 11 houses on the street, during the 1920's. We have the fence and a deep lawn between us and the traffic and feel rather snug.