This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lawrence Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DAw.2ACIB/2273 Message Board Post: Maybe this info will help someone. Read it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A mansion was built in 1929 for John and Mary Lawrence, whose father, William Flinn, was a powerful state politician and owner of a construction company that completed the Liberty Tunnels in Pittsburgh and the Holland Tunnel in New York. In 1969 Mary sold the mansion, most of its contents and 400 aqcres to Allegheny for a little more than 1 million dollars. It opened to the public in 1976. From Barb