# Bigham House

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{{Infobox historic site
 | name              = Bigham House
 | designation1      = PHLF
 | image             = BighamHouse.jpg
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 | location          = 655 Pennridge Road, [Chatham Village](/source/Chatham_Village) ([Mount Washington](/source/Mount_Washington%2C_Pittsburgh_(neighborhood))), [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania](/source/Pittsburgh%2C_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
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 | built             = 1849
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 | 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>
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'''Bigham House''' located at 655 Pennridge Road in [Chatham Village](/source/Chatham_Village), in the [Mount Washington](/source/Mount_Washington%2C_Pittsburgh_(neighborhood)) neighborhood of [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania](/source/Pittsburgh%2C_Pennsylvania), was built in 1849.  This was the former house of [abolitionist](/source/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States) lawyer [Thomas James Bigham](/source/Thomas_James_Bigham) (1810–1884), and was "purportedly a station on the [Underground Railroad](/source/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](/source/Neoclassical_architecture) house is part of [Chatham Village](/source/Chatham_Village) and is used as a community clubhouse known as Chatham Hall. [Chatham Village](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Pennsylvania_legislature). Also a newspaperman, he headed for a time the ''[Commercial Journal](/source/Commercial_Journal)'' and helped found the ''[Pittsburgh Commercial](/source/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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