Millionaire industrialist Henry Clay Frick may be a controversial historical figure, but he was also a doting father. When he told his 17-year-old daughter, Helen, that she could have anything she wanted for her debutante party in 1908, she asked for a park where the children of Pittsburgh could enjoy nature. Her wish came true and Frick Park was born. Pittsburgh residents can now enjoy woodland trails, playgrounds, tennis courts, lawn bowling and a nature center in Frick Park.

When Frick died in 1919, he bequeathed to the city 150 acres south of his Point Breeze mansion, Clayton, and provided a $2 million trust fund to help with long-term maintenance for the park, which opened in 1927. Between 1919 and 1942, the money was used to purchase more land to enlarge the park, which now runs from Point Breeze into Squirrel Hill, borders Edgewood and dips under the Parkway East.