Swissvale
Swissvale is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 9 miles (14 km) east of downtown Pittsburgh.
Swissvale is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 9 miles (14 km) east of downtown Pittsburgh. Named for a farmstead owned by James Swisshelm, during the industrial age it was the site of the Union Switch and Signal Company of George Westinghouse. The population was 8,624 at the 2020 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Swissvale
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district is located in the southwestern part of the state and includes all of Fayette County, Greene County, and Washington County, and most of Indiana, Westmoreland, and Somerset counties. It is represented by Republican Guy Reschenthaler.
2 km · U.S. House district for Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 02Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a historic lawn park cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Opened in 1878, it is located in Point Breeze and is bordered by Frick Park, the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and the smaller Smithfield Cemetery.
2.8 km · cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 03Westinghouse Park
Westinghouse Park is a city-block sized municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The park land is the former estate of George Westinghouse, an American entrepreneur and engineer, and his wife Marguerite.
3.7 km · park in Pennsylvania, United States of America, United States of America · Wikipedia - 04Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation
Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation is a Conservative Jewish synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The congregation moved into its present synagogue building in 1953.
3.8 km · a synagogue in Pittsburgh · Wikipedia - 05American Jewish Museum
The American Jewish Museum, or AJM, is a contemporary Jewish art museum located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A department of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, the museum is located in the Squirrel Hill JCC at the corner Forbes Avenue and Murray Avenue, in the heart of Pittsburgh's historically Jewish neighborhood.
3.6 km · art museum in Pennsylvania, U.S. · Wikipedia - 06Calvary Catholic Cemetery
Calvary Catholic Cemetery is located at 718 Hazelwood Avenue in the Greenfield and Hazelwood neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1886 with the purchase of a 200-acre tract.
3.8 km · cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 07Frick Park
Frick Park is the largest municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, covering 644 acres. It is one of Pittsburgh's four historic large parks.
2 km · park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 08Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
The Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is an historic library which is located in the city of in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was built at 7101 Hamilton Avenue in the Homewood South neighborhood, and opened on March 10, 1910.
3.8 km · public library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 09Old Heidelberg Apartments
The Old Heidelberg Apartments in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a building from 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
2.5 km · building in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 10St Nicholas Carpatho-Rusyn church
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, also known as St.
2.7 km · church in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Swissvale
- Airports
- Pittsburgh (PIT), 30 km · Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 198 km · John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 260 km
- Stations
- Hamnett, 1.6 km · Roslyn, 300 m
- Cleveland → Swissvale194 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · $18–25
- Columbus → Swissvale270 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · $25–34
- Dulles → Swissvale264 km · quickest by road, 5h 55m · $30–41
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Swissvale
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Swissvale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundBoth inclines are funicular railways that scale the side of the mount.
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Next door to Swissvale
Swissvale is 10 km from Pittsburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.