The Oldest House in Pittsburgh Is a Scottish Pub in Hazelwood. Here’s Its Story.

In 1792, when Pittsburgh was barely a city and the surrounding region was still very much a frontier, a man named John Woods built a stone house overlooking the Monongahela River in what is now Hazelwood. That house is still standing. It has two-foot-thick rubble-stone walls, hand-hewn beams, wide-plank floors, and fireplaces at each end.…