- Point Breeze (Pittsburgh)
Infobox Pittsburgh neighborhood
name = Point Breeze
caption = The Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary is located on Penn Avenue in Point Breeze.
locator_
population1990 = 5909
population2000 = 5665
latd = 40.449
longd = 79.910
area_sqmi = 1.004Point Breeze is a largely residential
neighborhood in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania , USA.It is adjacent to the neighborhood of
Squirrel Hill , and is nearby the neighborhoods of Homewood South and Shadyside. Like nearby Squirrel Hill it boasts a largeJewish population, but is still majorityCatholic and contributes to a high percentage of students enrolled inTaylor Allderdice High School andCentral Catholic High School (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) .The most prominent feature of Point Breeze is
Henry Clay Frick 's Clayton, which is a part of the five-acreFrick Art & Historical Center . Nearby isSt. Bede School, a Catholic school. It is also the home to a popularPittsburgh Public Schools elementary school, Linden Academy,Westinghouse Park , and theReformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary . TheShady Side Academy Junior School is also located in Point Breeze.Point Breeze's claim to literary fame is due to writers
Annie Dillard andJohn Edgar Wideman .Pulitzer Prize winner Dillard's popularmemoir , "An American Childhood", is set in Point Breeze in the 1950s. Both of Wideman's memoirs, "Brothers and Keepers" and "Hoop Roots", use Westinghouse Park as a setting, as well as in his fictional "Homewood Trilogy".Although officially distinct neighborhoods separated by Penn Avenue, "Point Breeze" is also sometimes taken to include Point Breeze North.
ee also
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List of Pittsburgh neighborhoods References
Further reading
*cite book | author=Toker, Franklin | title=Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=
University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1986, 1994 | id=ISBN 0-8229-5434-6External links
* [http://www.frickart.org Frick Art & Historical Center]
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