Point Breeze, Pittsburgh

Point Breeze
Neighborhood of Pittsburgh
Henry Clay Frick's "Clayton"
Coordinates: 40°26′56″N 79°54′36″W / 40.449°N 79.910°W / 40.449; -79.910
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Allegheny County
City	Pittsburgh
Area [1]
• Total	1.004 sq mi (2.60 km2)
Population  (2010)[1]
• Total	5,315
• Density	5,300/sq mi (2,000/km2)

Point Breeze, or South Point Breeze,^{[2][better source needed]} is a largely residential neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The community was named after a tavern once located there.^[3]

Like nearby Squirrel Hill, it contains a large Jewish population, but is still majority Catholic and contributes to a high percentage of students enrolled in Taylor Allderdice High School, Oakland Catholic High School, and Central Catholic High School.

The most prominent feature of Point Breeze is Henry Clay Frick's Clayton, which is a part of the 5.5-acre (2.2 ha)^[4] Frick Art & Historical Center. Nearby is St. Bede School, a Catholic school, and the Pittsburgh New Church School. It is also the home to two Pittsburgh Public Schools, Linden Academy elementary school and Sterrett Middle School, and the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The neighborhood also hosts much open space, with Westinghouse Park, Mellon Park, the scenic Homewood Cemetery, as well as the northern edge of Frick Park within its borders.

Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard's popular memoir, An American Childhood, is set in Point Breeze during the 1950s. As a child she attended Park Place Elementary. Both of John Edgar Wideman's memoirs, Brothers and Keepers and Hoop Roots, use North Point Breeze's 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 frequently taken to include North Point Breeze.^{[citation needed]}