Frick Auto Collection & Mansion, Pittsburgh Photos

Steel industrialist Henry Clay Frick built a family mansion named Clayton in millionaire's row east of downtown Pittsburgh in 1891. Frick's labor unpopularity caused him to decamp along with the bulk of his art collection to New York City where his house & paintings became the Frick art gallery. His daughter also willed his Pittsburgh family estate intact to make it a public museum. Today the mansion with original furnishings, an automobile collection greatly expanded from the Frick's now antique limousines & an art gallery occupy the city block of gardens.

See also: Automobile Museums, Pittsburgh

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Brougham horse coach (late 19th C) at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Golden lamp on Brougham coach at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Extension Brougham coach 3692 (c1880) by W.D. Rogers & Sons of Philadelphia at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Columbia high-wheeler bone shaker bicycle (1882) at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.

Tonneau (1898) by Panhard & Levassor, France, owned by Henry J. Heinz, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Knox Model A Runabout three-wheel auto (1901), Springfield, MA, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Renault Type A Voiturette (1901), France, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Stanley Steamer Model R Roadster (1909), Newton, MA, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.

Stanley Steamer lamp & steam whistle at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Electric Phaeton (1909) by S.R. Bailey & Co., Amesbury, MA, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Volt & Amp meters on S.R. Bailey Electric Phaeton (1909) at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Keystone Six-Sixty Roadster (1909) by Munch-Allen Motor Car Co., DuBois, PA, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.

Keystone Six-Sixty Roadster six cylinder engine at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Penn 30 Touring Car (1911) by Penn Motor Car Company, , at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Daimler Landaulette (1912) of Warwickshire, England at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost (1914) once owned by Henry Clay Frick at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.

Model E Touring Car (1917) by Standard Steel Car Co., , at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Lincoln Model L (1922) at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Lincoln Model L V8 engine at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Salamanca Town Car (1923) made in Springfield, MA, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.

Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Salamanca Town Car front grill at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Salamanca Town Car hood ornament at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Peugeot Quadrilette (1924-5) from Beaulieu, France, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Peugeot Quadrilette two seats set out of line to allow driver to shift at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.

Red Bug (1924) by Automotive Electric Service Co., North Bergen, NJ, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Willys-Knight Great Six Model 66B (1930) by Willys-Overland Co., Toledo, OH, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Willys-Knight Great Six Model 66B hood ornament at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	American Austin Coupe (1931) from Butler, PA, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.

Bantam Roadster (1939) by American Bantam Car Co., Butler, PA, at Frick Mansion Auto Collection.	Frick family mansion called Clayton (expanded in 1891). Architect: Frederick J. Osterling.	Carriage entrance of Frick Mansion.	Window detail of Frick Mansion.

Tower finial of Frick Mansion.	Carve lion on column of Frick Mansion.	Greenhouse at Frick Mansion.	Greenhouse at Frick Mansion.

Gate at Frick Mansion.