One of the very best landscape trees in Pittsburgh because of its successful planting in screens, hedges and groupings near large buildings, malls and in planter boxes. There is a good example of this column- like hornbeam shaped into an aerial hedge at the Frick Art & Historical Center on Reynolds Avenue in Point Breeze. This was the home of Henry Clay Frick. As with the American hornbeam, it produces a tough, hard, and heavy wood.