A wall, close to Pittsburgh's Perrysville Avenue, of the original factory building used by
famous telescope-maker John A. Brashear, in the latter part of the
nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century,
collapsed onto a nearby, two-floor
apartment building March 16 at about 10:20 p.m., necessitating the
evacuation of the apartment building.
The historic John A. Brashear Factory building, in its hey-day, where telescopes and precise scientific instruments were produced in the latter part of the nineteen...