Point Breeze (Pittsburgh)
- Point Breeze (Pittsburgh)
Infobox Pittsburgh neighborhood
name = Point Breeze
![](/pictures/enwiki/82/Reformed_Presbyterian_Theological_Seminary.jpg)
caption = The Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary is located on Penn Avenue in Point Breeze.
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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 large Jewish population, but is still majority Catholic and contributes to a high percentage of students enrolled in Taylor Allderdice High School and Central 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-acre Frick Art & Historical Center. Nearby is St. Bede School, a Catholic school. It is also the home to a popular Pittsburgh Public Schools elementary school, Linden Academy, Westinghouse Park, and the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The Shady Side Academy Junior School is also located in Point Breeze.
Point Breeze's claim to literary fame is due to writers Annie Dillard and John Edgar Wideman. Pulitzer Prize winner Dillard's popular memoir, "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
*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 0-8229-5434-6
External links
* [http://www.frickart.org Frick Art & Historical Center]
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