Chatham Village Historic District

Courtesy of Lee Paxton

18 September 2010

Website:
http://www.chathamvillagehomesinc.com/default.php

Telephone Number:
(412) 431-4300

Location:
412 Bigham Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15211

Description:

The history of Chatham Village is rich and varied. It includes a visionary civic organization, the Buhl Foundation, which set in motion the planning of a new village community. It touches historic names like William Pitt and William Penn. And it embraces renowned urban planners Clarence Stein and Henry Wright.

It's a history of progressive design as well—underground electric distribution, clustered homes, a green belt of undeveloped woodlands, and a rich garden-like landscape—in 1932!

And it's a history of a changing, vibrant community molded by the many families and individuals who have called Chatham Village home since its founding.

Although construction of Chatham Village began in 1931, its beginnings trace back to Sir Ebenezer Howard, who initiated the Garden City movement at the turn of the 20th Century in Great Britain. Architects Clarence Stein and Henry Wright brought the Garden City urban planning principles to the United States as they spearheaded new and innovative ideas in community planning. Chatham Village is one of their most famous and successful accomplishments.

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