U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA
Summary
Significance: This building houses seven vertical cross-compound condensing steam engines. These blowing engines originally produced wind for the Clairton Works blast furnaces. In ca. 1961, two furnaces (#6 and #7) were torn down.
Survey number: HAER PA-49-A
Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1961 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1961
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Southwark Foundry & Machine Company
Curry, Field, field team
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Yearby, Jean P, historian
Curry, Field, historian
Yearby, Jean P, historian
Boucher, Jack, photographer
Location
Clairton (Pa.), 40.29409, -79.87284
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