Hi, all -- It took this to raise me out of the realm of the lurkers and
come out into the sunlight!

I, too, watched the "American Experience" film on Andrew Carnegie,
being as I, like the show's host, hail from Pittsburgh, PA, the site of
Carnegie's famous exploits.

As a matter of fact, I grew up in a house on the diagonally opposite
corner from "Clayton", the only surviving mansion of the robber barons;
Westinghouse, Heinz, and a host of other millionaires of the late
19th century all had homes in that area of Pittsburgh, Point Breeze.

The Heinz mansion had been across the street from our house, and a low
black stone wall running all around the block was the only remnant.
The Westinghouse mansion had been across Thomas Boulevard from Heinz,
and that is now a park -- Westinghouse Park, of course.  But Clayton
survives, because Helen Clay Frick, Henry's daughter, maintained the
house to the end of her life.  She was still alive when I was a child.

Though she spent most of the year in New York, she supposedly came
to Pittsburgh to vote, and perhaps spent a month or so every year
"in residence".  She had had a squabble with the board of the Frick
Museum in New York (her father's NYC mansion, and a splendid art
museum; see http://www.frick.org/ ), so in 1969 she built her own
museum in her backyard.  You can see a couple of nice photos of Clayton
at  http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/gpmc/museums/frick/clay.htm
and information about the whole estate, now a museum, at
http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/gpmc/museums/frick/frickmap.htm

In 1990, many years after Miss Frick passed away, the house was opened
for tours.  When I went on the tour, shortly after the museum opened, a
highlight of the tour was a demonstration of the orchestrion.  It is
really something! I hope they have continued to operate and maintain
this spectacular device.  If you ever find yourself in Pittsburgh, call
up the Frick and try to get on one of the tours!

Best regards from San Diego,

Bob Pinsker