Point Breeze | |
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 Henry Clay Frick's "Clayton" | |
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| Coordinates:40°26′56″N79°54′36″W / 40.449°N 79.910°W /40.449; -79.910 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Allegheny County |
| City | Pittsburgh |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.004 sq mi (2.60 km2) |
| Population (2010)[1] | |
• Total | 5,315 |
| • Density | 5,294/sq mi (2,044/km2) |
Point Breeze, orSouth Point Breeze,[2][better source needed] is a largely residentialneighborhood inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The community was named after a tavern once located there.[3]
Like nearbySquirrel Hill, it contains a largeJewish population, but is still majorityCatholic and contributes to a high percentage of students enrolled inTaylor Allderdice High School,Oakland Catholic High School, andCentral Catholic High School.
The most prominent feature of Point Breeze isHenry Clay Frick's Clayton, which is a part of the 5.5-acre (2.2 ha)[4]Frick Art & Historical Center. Nearby isSt. Bede School, a Catholic school, and the Pittsburgh New Church School. It is also the home to twoPittsburgh Public Schools,Linden Academy elementary school andSterrett Middle School, and theReformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The neighborhood also hosts much open space, withWestinghouse Park,Mellon Park, the scenicHomewood Cemetery, as well as the northern edge ofFrick Park within its borders.
Pulitzer Prize winnerAnnie Dillard's popularmemoir,An American Childhood, is set in Point Breeze during the 1950s. As a child she attendedPark Place Elementary. Both ofJohn Edgar Wideman's memoirs,Brothers and Keepers andHoop Roots, use North Point Breeze'sWestinghouse Park as a setting, as well as in his fictionalHomewood Trilogy.
Although officially distinct neighborhoods separated byPenn Avenue, "Point Breeze" is also frequently taken to includeNorth Point Breeze.[citation needed]
Point Breeze has six borders, five with the Pittsburgh neighborhoods ofNorth Point Breeze to the north,Regent Square to the southeast,Squirrel Hill South to the south and southwest,Squirrel Hill North to the west, andShadyside to the northwest. The other border is with the borough ofWilkinsburg to the east. Point Breeze also runs catty-corner (without a direct border) with the Pittsburgh neighborhood ofLarimer to the north at the intersection of Penn and Fifth Avenues (This intersection also serves as an east–west "diagonal" for the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Shadyside and North Point Breeze).
The eastern edge of the neighborhood, north ofRegent Square and east ofFrick Park, comprises the neighborhood ofPark Place.[5] TheShady Side Academy Junior School sits here, as doesEnvironmental Charter School, aPittsburgh Public School that operates as acharter school in the building originally known asPark Place School.
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