Squirrel Hill's Nine Mile Run[4] project borders it on the west; to the north is a section of the park adjacent to the Regent Square and the Parkway East.

The neighborhood adjoins Frick Park, Regent Square, the Squirrel Hill shopping district, and Edgewood Towne Centre.

[7] John Swisshelm (1752–1838), a veteran of Valley Forge, purchased a grist mill from William Pollock in 1808 and built a small log cabin in Nine Mile Run Hollow.

[12] Haven's wife, Helen (Cooper),[13] gained notoriety during the Civil War for her generous support for the Union troops at nearby Camp Copeland (in the Braddock Borough).

She is said to have made daily trips to the camp and, at her own expense, provided the troops with home cooked meals while attending to the sick and dying.

[15][16] A 35-acre portion of modern-day Swisshelm Park, including most of the area surrounding what is now Windermere Drive, was once owned by George Jackson, who died in 1854 and left the land to heirs.

Although her true birth origins were kept secret from her through most of her childhood, Alice eventually learned that she was the child of Mollie and City Fire Bureau Chief Samuel Evans.

Having laid bare the secret origins of her birth and producing several witnesses who affirmed her account in court, the judge sided with Alice and awarded her half of the estate, then valued at 1.5 million dollars, in 1915.

[7] A city real estate map from 1939 shows that Robert George Jackson maintained possession of much of the land, which was divided into subplots and named the "Ye Old Swissvale Farm" development.

[19] In 1940, Robert George Jackson, a former resident of England,[20] began putting the lots of land on Windermere Drive up for sale to raise money for British bomb refugees during the early stages of World War II.

For decades, a concern of Swisshelm Park residents was the condition and reuse of the Duquesne slag area on the northwestern portion of the neighborhood.

[32][33][34][35][36][5][6] Swisshelm Park has three land borders, two with the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Regent Square to the northwest and Squirrel Hill South from the north down to the southwest.