This Old Pittsburgh House: A Great Day at Vineacre
This Old Pittsburgh House: A Great Day at Vineacre The site of many gatherings throughout the years, a bucolic estate in Edgeworth was once home to composer Ethelbert Nevin. January 26, 2021 PHOTO BY MARK HOUSER It wasn’t the historic plaque on the front porch that convinced Tom and Eileen McConomy to buy their house along Woodland Road in Edgeworth. Like most Pittsburghers, neither of them had ever heard of its former resident, Ethelbert Nevin. Instead, it was the airy and light-flooded spaces, the 12-foot ceilings, and the privacy on an elevated plot that’s out of sight of Beaver Avenue...