CRESSON, Pa. -- A Cambria County judge has rejected a request to save a 121-year-old cottage once believed to be the summer home of steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie.

The ruling by Cambria County Judge David Tulowitzki means Cresson Township officials can raze the structure, which dates to the late 1800s. It had been declared a public nuisance in January and a fire hazard.

The Braemar-Jones cottage is owned by the Cresson Area Historical Association, which had asked the judge to block the demolition. The group had hoped to restore the building located about 75 miles east of Pittsburgh.

The structure was once believed to have been Mr. Carnegie's summer home. Now it is thought to have belonged to steel executive Benjamin F. Jones.

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