Uptown was first developed by James Tustin, an eccentric English émigré who built an estate in the area in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. His home featured an English taste in architecture and a fruit orchard, and was acknowledged at the time to have been "the most beautiful place in Pittsburgh," according to a 1915 article in the "Pittsburgh Gazette–Times". Tustin named his estate "Soho" after his previous residence in Britain, and the name came to be generally applied to the neighborhood.