NPS Form 10900 OMB Control No. 10240018 expiration date 03/31/2022 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. 1. Name of Property Historic name: _Riverview Park_____________________________________________ Other names/site number: ______________________________________ Name of related multiple property listing: _____N/A______________________________________________________ (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing _________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: Roughly bounded by Woods Run Ave., Mairdale Ave., Perrysville Ave., and Kilbuck St._____________________________________________ City or town: _Pittsburgh___________ State: _PA_____ County: _Allegheny___________ Not For Publication: Vicinity: ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property ___ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: ___national ___statewide ___local Applicable National Register Criteria: ___A ___B ___C ___D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date ______________________________________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government DRAFT 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10900 OMB Control No. 10240018 Name of Property Riverview Park County and State Allegheny, PA In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register crite- ria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: DRAFT Public – Local X Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10900 OMB Control No. 10240018 Name of Property Riverview Park County and State Allegheny, PA Public – State Public – Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) X District Site Structure Object Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing ______5_______ _____________ buildings ______3_______ _______1______ sites ______10_______ _______5______ structures _____________ _____________ objects _____18________ _______6_______ Total DRAFT Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register ___1______ ____________________________________________________________________________ Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10900 OMB Control No. 10240018 Name of Property Riverview Park County and State Allegheny, PA 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) _LANDSCAPE/Park__________________ _RECREATION AND CULTURE/Outdoor Recreation__________________ _RECREATION AND CULTURE/Museum_________________ _RECREATION AND CULTURE/Sports facility_________________ _EDUCATION/Research facility_________________ _OTHER/Zoo_________________ ___________________ Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) _LANDSCAPE/Park__________________ _RECREATION AND CULTURE/Outdoor Recreation__________________ _RECREATION AND CULTURE/Sports facility_________________ _EDUCATION/Research facility_________________ _OTHER/Visitors’ Center_________________ ___________________ DRAFT Sections 1-6 page 4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10900 OMB Control No. 10240018 Name of Property Riverview Park County and State Allegheny, PA _____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) _LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVE- MENTS__________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: ________________________ Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph Riverview Park is a 250-acre city park laid out over a high ridge and steep hillsides overlooking the Ohio River in the North Side of Pittsburgh. All of the present area of Riverview Park is in- cluded within the National Register boundary. The park’s landscape is predominantly dense woodland punctuated by a few clearings and meadows, some of which feature rustic picnic shel- ters or other features. Riverview Park contains a mix of architecturally significant buildings, structures, and landscape features; post-period-of-significance (and therefore non-contributing) buildings and structures; and sites and ruins of buildings that were significant in the park’s his- tory. Throughout the park, extensive stonework reinforces the rugged naturalism of the park’s landscape. Most of the park’s buildings and attractions are located atop one high ridge near the park’s main entrance at the terminus of Riverview Avenue. The Riverview Avenue entrance is by far the most formal area of Riverview Park and contains the most designed elements, most of them dating from a short but prolific period of park improvement funded by the WPA in the late 1930s-early 1940s. A wide, winding road, Riverview Drive, loops through the park and connects to neighborhoodDRAFT streets at the park’s three main entrance points, but many of Riverview Park’s zones and features, especially in its northern sector, are accessible only via an extensive network of foot and bridle trails. Riverview Park retains integrity of location, setting, design, workman- ship, materials, feeling, and association. Section 7 page 5 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10900 OMB Control No. 10240018 Name of Property Riverview Park County and State Allegheny, PA ______________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Description Riverview Park is a 250-acre city park laid out over a high ridge and steep hillsides overlooking the Ohio River in the North Side of Pittsburgh, formerly the independent City of Allegheny. It is surrounded by the residential neighborhoods of Brighton Heights, Perry North, Perry South, and Marshall-Shadeland. These neighborhoods are characterized by modest-to-middle-class single- family houses, row houses, and small apartment buildings constructed between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Riverview Park’s landscape is predominantly dense woodland punctuated by a few clearings and meadows, some of which feature picnic shelters or other features. Its topography is that of steep wooded slopes, ravines, and valley floors surrounding one high ridge upon which most of the park’s buildings and attractions are located. A wide, winding road, Riverview Drive, loops through the park and connects to neighborhood streets at the park’s three main entrance points: Riverview Avenue at the east, Grand Avenue at the south, and Mairdale Street at the west. Mair- dale Street does not terminate at the park but extends northward along the park’s northwestern boundary. Perrysville Avenue bounds the park on the east and features two WPA-era stone bus shelters at trail heads from the road into the park. Kilbuck Road, which once admitted vehicles into the southeastern