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andy warhol’s early boyhood home
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Andy Warhol's second family home (or his first to some accounts) was a two-bedroom slum apartment at this address.
The apartment was within sight of industrial complex, blast furnaces, and belching smoke of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company where Ondrej, Andy's father, was employed.
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from andy warhol posted in art and design by pete_nice
Andy Warhol spent his earliest days at this address, in a shack-like row house identical to two-dozen other shacks on the block, and in the company of his parents and two older brothers. There was no bathroom, only a shared commode between the neighbors, and no heat to ease the winters.
The family upgraded to a two-bedroom apartment on Beelen Street as their next home.
andy warhol’s brownstone
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Purchased in 1959, Warhol and his mother, Julia, moved into this 16-and-a-half foot wide, five-story townhouse. There was clutter in the form of soup labels and Brillo pads, and 25 cats nestled in windowsills or on top of the fireplace.
According to the most recent Zillow entry, the home sold on December 27, 2011 for $3,550,000.
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Andy Warhol attended Schenley High School. He graduated in 1945 at the early age of sixteen, 51st in his class of 278 graduates.
Schenley High School closed in June 2011 after being open for 95 years.
andy warhol’s boyhood home
from andy warhol posted in art and design by pete_nice
Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. His parents, Julia and Ondrej Warhola, were Carpatho-Rusyns who immigrated Mikó (now called Miková) in what is now northeastern Slovakia in the early 1920's.
In 1934, Andy's father, a coal miner, bought a three story, yellow brick house at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol lived here from 1934 until he moved to New York City in 1949.
The youngest of three brothers, Andy developed chorea in the third grade, a nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness.
At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed.
The Warhola House is currently being restored by the surviving heirs to Warhol.
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