{"id":45,"featured":0,"modified":"2025-03-17 22:03:07","latitude":40.44273302703528,"longitude":-79.9822264617386,"title":"Hill House Association","address":"1835 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219","thumbnail":"https:\/\/hillhistory.org\/files\/square_thumbnails\/bfa529fe43620ce2fff5efc121a28c71.jpg","creator":[],"description":"The Hill House Association served as a community development organization and played a vital role in the Hill for more than 50 years.\u00a0 Hill House formed in 1964 from the merger of three pre-existing organizations: the Soho Community Center, the Anna B. Heldman Center, and the Hill City Youth Municipality. <br \/><br \/>In 1972, the Hill House\u2019s new headquarters was completed on Centre Avenue. In addition to health and human service agencies, the association offered personal development classes on site. <br \/><br \/>The organization was closely intertwined with the Hill District's Black community; the building itself was designed by Black architect Walter Lenox Roberts Jr., and many of the association's managers and tenants were Black leaders.<br \/><br \/>The bureaucratic aspects of Hill House are briefly mentioned in an exchange in August Wilson's <em>Radio Golf<\/em>.<br \/>\r\n<blockquote>\"They tell you, 'Sit over there and wait.' 'Fill out this\u00a0 paper.' 'Turn over.' 'Jump up and down.' I tried to tell them I wasn't no dog but they wasn't listening.\" <b>-Old Joe, <em>Radio Golf<\/em><\/b><\/blockquote>\r\n<br \/>In 2019, mounting debt and electrical damage to the building led to the dissolution of the Hill House Association. Medical offices continue to operate out of the building.","sponsor":"","subtitle":"\"The Heart of the Hill\"","accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["Glasco, Laurence A. <em>August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays.<\/em> Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 2015.","Lisi, Tom. \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicsource.org\/the-legacy-of-hill-house-association-pittsburgh.\">The legacy of Hill House: From settlement house to real estate player to nonprofit in dire straits<\/a>.\" <em>PublicSource.<\/em> July 11, 2019."],"files":{"https:\/\/hillhistory.org\/files\/fullsize\/bfa529fe43620ce2fff5efc121a28c71.jpg":{"id":99,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","title":"Origins of Hill House","thumbnail":"https:\/\/hillhistory.org\/files\/square_thumbnails\/bfa529fe43620ce2fff5efc121a28c71.jpg","description":"Community newsletter article describes meetings to merge social service organizations, an effort that led to the founding of Hill House Association the following year. | Carnegie Library Hill District Branch Archive"}}}