Pittencrieff House is a 16th century house in the 76-acre Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline city centre. It was built by Alexander Clerk of Stenton (1569 - 1644), Provost of Edinburgh who bought the Pittencrieff Estate in 1610. He built the three-story house with stone from the former royal palace at Dunfermline.
Pittencrieff House was the birthplace of Brigadier General John Forbes, the forger of the Forbes Trail in Pennsylvania and the founder of Pittsburgh.
The house was sold in 1762 and changed hands several times until Colonel James Hunt in 1903 sold the property to industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline and donated Pittencrieff Park & House to the citizens of Dunfermline.
Pittencrieff Park includes a statue of Andrew Carnegie, a large greenhouse, and a plaque commemorating Brig.-Gen. John Forbes and the Forbes Trail. The park is located across the Tower Burn from Dunfermline palace, Dunfermline Abbey, and the tomb of Robert the Bruce.
For Dunfermline Open Studios 2026, six artists will be popping up in Pittencrieff House for the weekend. They will be showing their finished work and their process. The artists are: Jenny Donoghue / Albany Wool, Vicki Anderson / Barbary Wood Jewellery, Heidi Orava, Iain Ritchie / Kelart, Katherine Zoroa - Vecchiarelli and Zoe Cook.