U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 2, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA
Summary
See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 134 & 135).
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-L
Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1970 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1970
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Defense Plant Corporation
U.S. Steel Corporation
Mesta Machine Company
Towler Hydraulics
Alliance [machinery manufacturer]
Bliss [machinery manufacturer]
Stupich, Martin, photographer
Location
Homestead (Pa.), 40.40590, -79.91199
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