{"id":24,"featured":0,"modified":"2025-06-17 22:17:47","latitude":40.44462075,"longitude":-79.9870954375,"title":"Daisy Wilson House","address":"1621 Bedford Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.hillhistory.org\/files\/square_thumbnails\/28bcb5ca1fa92ba6678ed5c4580ef6fc.jpg","creator":[],"description":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Daisy Wilson, the mother of August Wilson, lived at this address for some time until her death in 1983. At the 1999 world premire of <em>King Hedley II,<\/em> August Wilson recognized the backyard of 1621 Bedford Avenue as the intended setting for the play. <em>Two Trains Running\u00a0<\/em>also makes reference to the address 1621; however, it serves as an extra homage to Wilson's mother rather than an actual setting.<\/div>","sponsor":"","subtitle":"","accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<span>Glasco, Laurence A. <\/span><i>August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays<\/i><span>. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 2015.<\/span>"],"files":{"https:\/\/www.hillhistory.org\/files\/fullsize\/28bcb5ca1fa92ba6678ed5c4580ef6fc.jpg":{"id":105,"mime-type":"image\/png","title":"1621 Bedford Avenue","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.hillhistory.org\/files\/square_thumbnails\/28bcb5ca1fa92ba6678ed5c4580ef6fc.jpg","description":"Image from Google Streetview"}}}