Built in 1893 in the Shingle architectural style, the house was the home of Patrick F. Gallagher, president of the Duquesne Construction Company from 1931 to 1938, and his family.

It was said that the deaths of her sons caused her to lose her sanity and, as such, all sales of her property in the preceding eighteen months were reviewed by the courts to confirm that the purchasers had given her a fair price and not taken advantage of Comingo's mental state.

The head of the household, Robert Larkin, was a native of Pennsylvania, worked as a clerk, and occupied the House with his four sisters.

[5] Here, Patrick worked at his brother Charles’ construction business, Duquesne Construction Company, which was responsible for many prominent buildings in Pittsburgh, such as Sacred Heart Church, St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church, and St. Paul’s Cathedral Grade School, High School, Convent, and Rectory.

The 1930 census recorded eight of the ten children living at the Gallagher-Kieffer House, with two (Kathleen and Dorothy) working as schoolteachers and the rest attending school.

This is most evident in the plaster bas-relief sculpture of St. Benedict located over the dining room fireplace mantel, which served as the plaster cast for a bronze bas-relief of St. Benedict in St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church on Pittsburgh’s North Side, which the Duquesne Construction Company built.

[1] The Gallagher-Kieffer House exemplifies the late-nineteenth century Victorian period Shingle Style of architecture.