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1117 Ninth Avenue (Commercial), 1117 Ninth Avenue, Altoona, Blair County, PA
Summary
Significance: Adjacent to the Pennsylvania Railroad Altoona Works, the largest railroad-owned construction shops in the country, this building provided services for the railroad builders and engineers who lived and worked in the area. The structure was originally constructed as a garage connected to two neighboring buildings and included a steel-trussed roof, concrete floor and gas heat.
Survey number: HABS PA-5960
Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction
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Date
1920
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Fitzsimmons, Gray, field team
America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor
Madrid, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Madrid, Christine L, historian
Location
Altoona (Pa.), 40.51445, -78.39830
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
