We go to the Frick every few months. Tea is quite a treat. Never been disappointed.

Visiting the house gives you a look into Victorian Pittsburgh in its heyday. Then there's the car museum, and the art exibits. Also the cafe, kind of pricey, but splurge on high tea! Grounds are beautiful.

Walking into the former Henry Frick mansion in Point Breeze is like walking into the heart of the Victorian era in Pittsburgh. Frick, the Steel and Coke magnate, lived in the house with his family until the early 1900's, when he moved the family to New York (to a new Frick House, now museum, by Central Park). Later, his daughter... More

If you haven't been to Frick, get there! The art museum is nice, great classic cars, and the mansion has some amazing paintings as well.

Widely interesting and worthwhile. (Men on an earlier tour marveled at the woodwork in the family mansion, Clayton, and children were fascinated by the 19th Century toys and a player-piano type orchestra in a huge box on the front porch.) House tours daily except Monday and holidays, $6-$12. Everything else is free. John Phillips Sousa's band entertained here on at... More