Henry Clay Frick was a wealthy steel baron in Pittsburgh who bore a large part of the responsibility for two great calamities suffered by the working class of Western Pennsylvania.

First, the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Second, the Homestead strike of 1891 in which seven strikers and several Pinkerton detectives were killed.

Frick was an avid art collector and doting father. When he told his 17-year-old daughter, Helen, that she could have anything she wanted for her debutante party in 1908, she asked for a park where the children of Pittsburgh could enjoy nature. Her wish came true and Frick Park was born. The 600-acre park is the largest of the city's parks and widely enjoyed by persons of all classes in all seasons.

Beautiful stonework and rough hewn rail fences add to the elegance of the park.

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