What's The Point? --
Eichleay

Caption: Moving the "Brown Mansion."

Notes: Moved on December 19, 1903 by John Eichleay, Jr. Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Captain S. S. Brown built this mansion in 1868. Originally twenty-four rooms. This three-story brick building 44 x 85 feet raised 160 feet and moved 600 feet from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks at Brown's Station to the top of Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. James Ward, Jr., nephew, came into possession in 1903 and had it raised at a cost of $40,000. Destroyed by fire 1913. Copied from photograph in files of the Eichleay Corporation, Pittsburgh. Marker in foreground: "Height 160 feet 10-27-03." Banner strung across porch: "[John Eichelay Jr. Co. Construction ...]"

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Date: 27 October 1903.

Heading: Pittsburgh. Houses.

#: A960.

From the Collections of the Pennsylvania Department,

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.