THE MEXICAN WAR STREETS
The Mexican War Streets neighborhood was laid out by William
Robinson, shortly after the end of that conflict. He gave the streets
names related to the war. The houses were built over a period of
about 50 years. The houses are mostly of brick construction.
The vast majority of the homes are stoop fronted and are not set back.
This is a rowhouse neighborhood although only about half of the
homes are rowhouses in the strictest sense (3 or more attached homes
built as a unit). The rest are single and double houses laid out in the fashion
popular 100 years earlier (structurally separate houses, built hard against
one another. This pattern can be seen in Georgetown, Alexandria, and other
cities with a large number of Colonial era homes. Pittsburgh is the only city
I know of where the practice remained widespread during the 19th Century).
This was a middle class area until the 1920s. Alley houses are numerous here,
as they are in most 19th century Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
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