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Old 02-19-2015, 02:43 PM
 
Location: Western PA
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It has some incredibly nice areas. We have friends who just bought a beautiful 1940 house up in the hills along a winding street. If you've ever seen the 1950 film "Father of the Bride" with Spencer Tracey - that's the house it looks like. If you drive up there you realize why they call it FOREST Hills. Lots of huge trees and a great tree canopy.
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Old 02-19-2015, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Forest Hills
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Forest Hills was most definitely a Westinghouse company town, but it was a Westinghouse Research company town. A lot of the original 1920 developments were for Westinghouse scientists and executives. There are several layers to the Forest Hills housing stock. You have the original coal miner houses from the 19th century around Kenmore Road and Filmore Road, the 1920's Westinghouse manager houses all around the Avenues (Avenue A, Avenue E, Avenue F, all surrounding the old Atom Smasher site), the 1920's Freehold Real Estate plans that are all upper class, executive type houses along Ardmore Boulevard and in the general Edgewood Acres area, the Marion/Lenox/Sumner/Ardmore blocks consist of a mix of old apartment buildings and large, 1940's style Pittsburgh houses, and then everything else was filled in with post war suburban stuff. I really need to post some Street View shots of all the different styles Forest Hills has to offer and how beautiful it can be in the summer. It's like the forgotten Pittsburgh neighborhood, and as a result, it has retained most if not all of it's charm and beauty. To be surrounded by Wilkinsburg, Braddock, East Pittsburgh, and Turtle Creek, be a part of the Woodland Hills School District, and not completely fall apart like all those boroughs is really impressive and it says a lot about the people in charge. It also helps that Jay Costa and Mike Doyle live there.
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