Similar
Related
Alcoa-New Kensington Works, Ninth Street to Sixteenth Street, adjacent to Allegheny River, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA
Summary
Significance: The former Aluminum Company of America's (Alcoa) New Kensington Works was established in 1891 by Charles M. Hall's Pittsburgh Reduction Company, and it was this concern's first major alumninm-producing plant outside of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Reduction Company, reorganized and renamed Alcoa in 1907, was the nation's first major producer of aluminum and aluminum products.
Survey number: HAER PA-337
Building/structure dates: 1891 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1900 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1971 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1900
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Hall, Charles M
Aluminum Company of America
Madrid, transmitter
Location
New Kensington (Pa.), 40.56979, -79.76477
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
