History & local legend
Clayton was the Pittsburgh home of industrialist Henry Clay Frick and his wife, Adelaide. They bought the Point Breeze property in 1882, moved into it in 1883, and used it as their principal home until their move to New York in 1905. Their daughter Helen Clay Frick later preserved the house and its contents; it opened to museum visitors in 1990.
The family’s continued presence in the furnishings and personal possessions has a counterpart in local ghost lore. VisitPittsburgh recounts a tradition that two women wander the mansion’s halls, sometimes identified by storytellers as members of the Frick family. The account supplies no names for the women or dates for the sightings.
