Stewart Company Grain Elevator, 16 West Carson Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
Summary
Significance: The 1913 elevator replaced an earlier elevator on the same site and was the first concrete grain elevator in Pittsburgh. A rail siding connected the structure to the Panhandle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1945, a second elevator was built adjacent to the earlier structure. The elevator continues to function using some machinery dating from the 1913-1945 buildings. The elevator is a rare surviving of Pittsburgh's grain processing industry.
Survey number: HAER PA-381
Building/structure dates: 1913 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1928 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1945 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1945
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
D. G. Stewart Grain Company
Jesse C. Stewart Company
Union Storage Company
Groomes Construction Company
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company
R. Munroe & Sons
Webster Manufacturing, Incorporated
Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Company
Trimble Construction Company
Richardson Scale Company
Standard Metal Products
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway
Christine Davis Consultants, Incorporated, contractor
Port Authority of Allegheny County, sponsor
Davis, Christine, historian
Kurtik, Frank, historian
Metzger, William, photographer
Martin, Charles, photographer
Location
Pittsburgh (Pa.), 40.43217, -80.00399
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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