Monongahela Railway Company Shops, Water Street & Seventeenth Street, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Monongahela Railway Company Shops reflect the support needs of a railroad significant in the coal, coke, and steel industries of Southwest Pennsylvania in the twentieth century, particularly in the era of the 1920s, during the expansion of the Monongahela Railway Company system.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N172

Survey number: HAER PA-218

Building/structure dates: 1903-1925 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1953-1954 Subsequent Work

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