Pittsburgh ยท Shadyside
Mansions on Fifth
Attorney Willis F. McCook's 1906 Tudor Revival mansion on Fifth Avenue and the house he built next door for his daughter: 22 rooms in all.
- Built
- 1906Main McCook mansion (Fifth Avenue House) finished 1906; the adjacent Amberson House was completed slightly earlier (NPS significant years 1906/1907). Hotel opened 2011; Amberson House rooms 2012.
- Style
- Tudor / Elizabethan Revival
- Architect
- Carpenter & Crocker
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 22
- Area
- Shadyside
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
Attorney Willis F. McCook, counsel to Henry Clay Frick and captain of Yale’s first football team, built a 20,000-square-foot mansion on Fifth Avenue for his family of ten children, finished in 1906, plus a smaller house next door for his daughter. Carpenter & Crocker designed both in Elizabethan and Tudor Revival styles, with ironwork by Cyril Colnik and Rookwood tile, at a cost of $300,000. Preservationists Mary Del Brady and Richard Pearson bought the fire-damaged houses for $1.5 million and restored them, opening the Fifth Avenue House as a hotel in early 2011 and the Amberson House in November 2012. Priory Hospitality Group took over operations in 2016.
Good to know
- Address: 5105 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.