West Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela River.

Heavy industries associated with nearby steel mills existed here, such as axle works, brickworks, and manufactories of machinery, car wheels, etc.

The historic district consists of a series of hillside residential streets adorned by intact working-class houses reflecting the architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century period when Homestead first flourished.

West Homestead's historic district includes Doyle Ave, originally home to several notable glass manufacturing company owners.

Among this second wave of entrepreneurial owners, one noteworthy structure is the Mesta Mansion, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and considered the cornerstone of the district.

After Mesta's death in 1925, by 1932[3] new owners split the mansion into apartments, a fate shared by several of its neighbors during the Great Depression and after.

[4] Another feature of the historic district is the Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center on West Eighth Avenue.

Since 1935, this facility has continued to be the center of Bulgarian and Macedonian cultural activity in Western Pennsylvania.

The Great Allegheny Passage, part of a shared-use path connecting Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., runs through the borough parallel to the river.