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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 1, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 1, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

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Summary

See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 131 through 133).
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.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N762
Survey number: HAER PA-200-K
Building/structure dates: 1891 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1893 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1903 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1990 Demolished

date_range

Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Steel Company
United Engineering
Carnegie, Phipps & Company
Davy Brothers
Joseph Whitworth & Company
Fritz, John
Davenport, Russell
Mesta Machine Company
Stupich, Martin, photographer
place

Location

Homestead (Pa.)40.40590, -79.91199
Google Map of 40.4059025, -79.9119948
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Source

Library of Congress
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