Solitude, Westinghouse Estate, Is to Be Given to Pittsburgh as Park

This article from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of July 20, 1916 announced plans for transforming the Westinghouse estate into a public park including a monument to George Westinghouse.

The newspaper’s editorial of the same day (see below) gave strong support to the plan.

Yet more than two years passed before city finally acquired the property on December 1, 1918, and another decade passed before the Westinghouse Monument became a reality on October 6, 1930.

But the monument was built in Schenely Park, not Westinghouse Park.