Elco
Elco, PA · Business
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Step inside one of the last mansions on Pittsburgh’s Millionaire’s Row
Location: Mansions on Fifth on Fifth Avenue in Shadyside. Featured guests: Marissa Musico, director of event sales at Mansions on Fifth. 1. Marissa explained that this impressive mansion was built for Willis McCook, who was legal counsel to Henry Clay Frick, in the early 1900s. Willis and his wife Mary had 10 children, and they built a grand structure that included a billiards room, lounges for both the men and women and even a personal chapel where they attended Mass every weekend. Before construction was finished, their daughter Bessie got engaged. They built an additional, slightly-more-modest house on the property as her wedding gift.
everafterinthewoods.com
The Forgotten Pennsylvania Town That Used To Be A Massive Industrial Hub
America’s very first Carnegie library once made millworkers take a tunnel to a basement bathhouse before they could check out a book. Clean hands first, then the reading room. That rule tells you a lot about the town around it. This little borough in Pennsylvania still has a working steel mill, one Andrew Carnegie built in the 1870s.
