Full at
http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/10/22/these-homes-were-made-and-paid-for-by-you-and-me/
"When we lived in Pittsburgh in the 1990s, my mother came to visit for a few
days. She always wanted to see the Henry Clay Frick mansion, so we drove to
Wilkinsburg, just outside the Pittsburgh city limits, to see it. Frick was the
chief lieutenant of Andrew Carnegie and the architect of Carnegie Steel’s
efforts to dislodge the union of skilled ironworkers from its mills. This led
to the Homestead Steel Strike in 1892, one of the most famous working class
struggles in U.S. labor history. Frick and Carnegie later parted company and
feuded the rest of their lives. Frick abandoned his Pittsburgh home (though his
daughter lived their until her death) and built a much grander residence in
Manhattan. He said that the smoke from the mills in Pittsburgh was damaging
his paintings. . . .
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