CRESSON, Pa. -- A Cambria County township won't immediately demolish a 121-year-old cottage once believed to be the summer home of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, even though a judge rejected a request to save it.

Cresson Township's solicitor says it wouldn't be good from a legal standpoint to begin demolition because the Cresson Area Historical Association is appealing the judge's decision.

The association owns the Braemar-Jones cottage about 75 miles east of Pittsburgh. It hopes to raise $150,000 to save the cottage, but the township maintains that won't be enough and that it's a nuisance and fire hazard.

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

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