Squirrel Hill
Squirrel Hill is a large residential neighborhood in the east end of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. As of the census of 2000, there are 26,425 people, 12,030 households, and 6,325 families residing in the 15217 ZIP Code, which covers approximately the same region as the City of Pittsburgh's delineation of Squirrel Hill.
The public high school for the neighborhood is Allderdice High School. Squirrel Hill is also home to Chatham College and parts of the Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh campus (which also is partly in Oakland).
Squirrel Hill is bordered on the west by Oakland and Schenley Park, on the north by Shadyside and Point Breeze, on the east by Frick Park, and on the south by Greenfield and the Monongahela River.
Squirrel Hill, originally part of Pebbles Township, was annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1868. Squirrel Hill has had a large Jewish population since the 1920s, when Jews began to move to the neighborhood in large numbers from Oakland and the Hill District. According to a 2002 study by the United Jewish Federation, 33% of the Jewish population of greater Pittsburgh lives in Squirrel Hill[1], and another 14% in the surrounding area[2]. The report states that "The stability of Squirrel Hill, a geographic hub of the Jewish community located within the city limits, is unique in North America." Squirrell Hill contains three Jewish day schools, catering to the Lubavich, Orthodox, and Conservative movements. There are over twenty synagogues, many with their own websites. The Jewish community also offers three restaurants, a Jewish Community Center and an annual festival. It is estimated that one-fifth of the population of Squirrel Hill is Jewish.
Squirrell Hill is also home to The Pittsburgh Golf Club, an exclusive organization founded in 1896 by "a group of prominent citizens of Pittsburgh's East End"(member handbook). The club borders Schenley Park, Murdoch Farms and CMU. The membership includes some of Pittsburgh's elite: among them, Mark Nordenberg (Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh), Henry Hillman (President of Hillman Enterprises) and Paul O'Neill (briefly George W. Bush's Secretary of the Treasury).
Points of interest
See also
External links
- City of Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill page
- Taylor Allderdice High School
- Squirrel Hill Historical Society
- Squirrel Hill at Wikitravel
- Interactive Pittsburgh Neighborhoods Map
- Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh
References
- Toker, Franklin (1986, 1994). Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0822954346.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|year=(help)CS1 maint: publisher location (link) CS1 maint: year (link) - Squirrel Hill Historical Society (2005). Images of America - Squirrel Hill. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0738537179.