As crews rushed to stabilize a historic O’Keefe Avenue building on Monday after its façade tumbled to the ground over the weekend, shocking tenants and neighbors, the building’s owners remained in the dark about what caused the sudden collapse.
There was no indication that the 156-year old structure was unsound until hundreds of bricks crumbled off of the three-story building on Saturday night, said Miranda Restovic, executive director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, which owns the mixed-use building.
Crews immediately began to shore up the building on Saturday night and said that work was “substantially complete” by Monday, Restovic said…