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On April 13, 1868 — almost three years to
the day after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox — Pittsburgh confectioner
Jacob Reymer purchased the lots upon which he would build his home.
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A partner in the well-known Reymer Brothers wholesale
grocery and confectionary firm, Reymer himself never found his way into
the Pittsburgh Social Register.
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A
structure of the mid-Victorian era, Reymer House is more a reflection
of the Eclectic Movement, which began in the last decades of the nineteenth
century.
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Through
the front carved-walnut doors is a walnut-paneled vestibule which is
tiled with multi-colored mosaics of the period. The second walnut door
of the front vestibule opens into an ell-shaped reception hall, whose
focal point is a brass-lined fireplace surrounded by bronze-colored
ceramic tile
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