The Carol Peterson House is located at 172 46th Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Prior to the construction of the Peterson House, in the mid-nineteenth century the ground was occupied by a mansion that stretched from Butler Street to the Allegheny River.

[1] On September 24, 1886, David, and his wife Elizabeth, received a permit to commission construction for the two-story brick house.

Carol Peterson was an architectural historian whose writings and work contributed to Pittsburgh’s historiography, and advanced historic preservation of the city’s resources.

This style of architecture was made popular through the published works of architect Andrew Jackson Downing in the mid-1880s.