title: Houses at 2501–2531 Charles Street
text: # Houses at 2501–2531 Charles Street
  
  The houses at 2501–2531 Charles Street, which are located in the Perry South neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, were built in 1885.
  
  ## History and architectural features
  
  This row of homes originally included twenty-five nearly identical houses, which were thirteen feet wide and thirty-five feet deep. All but two of the buildings survive. They each have two rooms on the first floor, a parlor and a kitchen, and two bedrooms on the second floor. A third bedroom comprises the third floor behind the mansard roof. The houses rise gradually with the street, stepping up about two feet every fifth house. Every fifth house also has a large decorative gable over the mansard roof.
  
  These row houses were built by William A. Stone, who later became governor of Pennsylvania. In 1887 Stone built a similar set of rowhouses on Brightridge Street. The Charles Street row was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.
  
  