Longue Vue Club and Golf Course

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

The Longue Vue Club and Golf Course is a historic district at 400 Longue Vue Dr. in Penn Hills Township, Allegheny County, centered on a clubhouse built in 1923 by architect Benno Janssen in the English Norman and French Rural styles. The district was listed in the National Register in 2005.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture, entertainment and recreation, and landscape architecture. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1923 to 1954, reflecting the clubhouse built in 1923 and a ballroom addition and golf club storage addition built in 1954.

Physical character

The clubhouse has a stone foundation, sandstone walls and a slate roof, laid out in an expanded H-shaped plan with steep gables, gabled wall dormers and flat stone arches. Its interior includes unusually wide chimneys and a floor-to-ceiling limestone fireplace, and two automobile portals pass beneath the building. Flagstone terraces and equestrian trails once extended across the grounds until the trails fell out of use in 1941, and the 356.3-acre property includes an 18-hole golf course.

Historical context

In 1920 the Millionaires Club bought the Baggaley Farm and adjoining land for the site, and the golf course opened in May 1923. In 1936 the club brought in golf course architect A. W. Tillinghast, who made recommendations for the course, and Arnold Palmer won the first Pennsylvania Amateur Championship there in 1947.