Pittsburgh Brass Manufacturing Company Building | |
![]() The building in 2016 | |
Location | 3147–3155 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°27′39″N79°58′13″W / 40.46083°N 79.97028°W Coordinates: 40°27′39″N79°58′13″W / 40.46083°N 79.97028°W |
Built | 1903 |
NRHP reference # | 15001030 |
Added to NRHP | February 2, 2016 |
The Pittsburgh Brass Manufacturing Company Building is a historic building in the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1903 by the Pittsburgh Brass Manufacturing Company as a production facility for brass and brass goods. The four-story building housed a foundry with coke furnaces for producing raw brass along with casting, rolling, and machining equipment for manufacturing finished products. [1] Pittsburgh Brass used the building until the 1970s, after which it was left vacant for about 40 years. In 2015, the building was renovated and converted into 14 loft apartment units. [2]
The Strip District is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a one-half square mile area of land northeast of the central business district bordered to the north by the Allegheny River and to the south by portions of the Hill District. The Strip District runs between 11th and 33rd Streets and includes three main thoroughfares — Smallman St., Penn Ave., and Liberty Ave. — as well as various side streets.
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