Clayton Begins Tours of Its Upper Floors

It’s like peeking into a secret attic.

For the first time, The Frick Pittsburgh in Point Breeze is opening up the third and fourth floors of the Clayton mansion for public tours, beginning in November.

But don’t expect to see the immaculate furnishings, exquisite wall coverings, ornate mantel pieces and rich carpet tapestries that grace the first and second floors. They showcase how industrialist Henry Clay Frick and his family lived between 1883 to 1905, at the height of the Gilded Age.

Instead, expect peeling wall paper, water stains on ceilings, rooms crammed with fake flower arrangements, trunks and mismatched furniture and — gasp! — floors covered with orange plush carpet. Some of the rooms originally were used as servant quarters (some still with remnants of the annunciator bells