{"id":261692,"date":"2026-08-08T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261692\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:00:22","slug":"old-tarentum-opera-house-partially-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261692\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Tarentum Opera House partially collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historic opera house in Allegheny County partially collapses<\/p>\n<p>TARENTUM, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Part of the historic opera house in Allegheny County partially collapsed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to our partners at the Trib, part of the Tarentum Opera House crumbled. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Broken glass and windows were visible at the site, and the area has been blocked off as officials assessed the stability of the building.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Weather, rainwater, and age are being considered as factors in the initial investigation of the collapse.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historic opera house in Allegheny County partially collapses TARENTUM, Pa. \u2014 Part of the historic opera house in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50287,894,106510,1085,17163,25054,110814,139,110811,110812,6016,73,75,74,110815,73067,12478,1133,2583,110813,427,10254],"class_list":["post-261692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-age","tag-allegheny-county","tag-broken-glass","tag-building","tag-building-collapse","tag-collapse","tag-historic-opera-house","tag-news","tag-old-tarentum-opera-house","tag-opera-house-collapse-in-western-pa","tag-part","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rainwater","tag-stability","tag-trib","tag-weather","tag-wednesday","tag-western-pa-opera-house-collapse","tag-window","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}