PITTSBURGH — 418 Rochelle St. looks like an ordinary row house at first glance. Backed against a hillside in the city’s neighborhood of Knoxville, its porch is messy, but that’s hardly unusual.
A reporter walked up the front steps one windy day this November to take a closer look, peered through the front window and saw something that doesn’t belong inside a house: the sky.
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