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Help save history in your community by restoring and reusing historic buildings.
“There is a mural painted on the side of the building, and when people eat outside they get to see the mural.” --student quote
- Mallorca Restaurant
- 2228 East Carson Street
- Pittsburgh, PA 15203
- Date and Style
- Built in the 1870s
- --Victorian (Italianate) style
- Erected during the reign of Queen Victoria of England (1837-1901), this Victorian Italianate building is based on the style of Italian Renaissance villas. At the roofline are deep eaves with large brackets on a wide cornice board. The windows have rounded tops and are capped with decorative window hoods.
- Facts and Stories Worth Knowing
- Robert Wilson, a lumberman, owned this building and lived here in 1870.
- In 1916, the building was owned by H. C. Baughman.
- More recently, the building housed a motorcycle bar, clothing store, and, in the 1980s, the Brady Street Bridge Café.
- The Mallorca Restaurant opened here in 1991.
- The Mallorca has also opened restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.
- When a Hollywood movie is being filmed in Pittsburgh, the movie stars often dine at the Mallorca.
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