U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA
Summary
See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 76 through 94).
Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel center in the United States for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Survey number: HAER PA-200-A
Building/structure dates: 1883 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1899- 1903 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1907 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1909-1976 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Steel Corporation
Brown, James S
Clark, E L
Fownes, H C
Fownes, W C
Brown Hoisting Machinery Company
Massicks & Crooke
Pollock Company
Westinghouse Electric Company
Wilson-Snyder
Allis-Chalmers Company
Keystone Bridge Company
Riley-Stoker
Ingersoll-Rand
S. P. Kinney
Research-Cottrell, Incorporated
Worthington [pump manufacturer]
American Bridge Company
Dravo Engineering Corporation
General Electric Company
Stupich, Martin, photographer
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Location
Homestead (Pa.), 40.40590, -79.91199
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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