{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox historic site | name = Bigham House | designation1 = PHLF | image = BighamHouse.jpg | caption = | location = 655 Pennridge Road, Chatham Village (Mount Washington), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA | coordinates = {{coord|40|25|39.65|N|80|1|6.44|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = USA Pittsburgh central | map_caption = Location of Bigham House in Downtown Pittsburgh | area = | built = 1849 | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | architect = | governing_body = | designation1_date = 1977<ref name="PHLF">{{cite book | url= http://www.phlf.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/Historic-Plaques-2010b.pdf | title=Historic Landmark Plaques 1968-2009 | publisher=Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation | location=Pittsburgh, PA | year=2010 | accessdate=2011-08-18| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110721004355/http://www.phlf.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/Historic-Plaques-2010b.pdf| archivedate= 21 July 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> }} '''Bigham House''' located at 655 Pennridge Road in Chatham Village, in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1849. This was the former house of abolitionist lawyer Thomas James Bigham (1810–1884), and was "purportedly a station on the Underground Railroad."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d0sCwUNIqhwC&dq=%22Bigham+House%22+1844&pg=PA173 African American historic sites survey of Allegheny County] by Eliza Smith Brown, Daniel Holland, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (Harrisburg, 1994)</ref> These days, this Classical Revival house is part of Chatham Village and is used as a community clubhouse known as Chatham Hall. Chatham Village is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Landmark District, and this house was individually added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1990.<ref name="PHLF"/>
Bigham, known as "the Sage of Mt. Washington," served for many years as representative and senator in the Pennsylvania legislature. Also a newspaperman, he headed for a time the ''Commercial Journal'' and helped found the ''Pittsburgh Commercial''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thomas James Bigham|website=Pennsylvania General Assembly|url=http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5068&body=S|access-date=14 May 2018}}</ref>
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