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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
View photos from this survey. (Some may not be online).
U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA
- Title: U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA
- Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
- Related Names:
Carnegie, Andrew
U.S. Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Company
Kloman, Andrew
Singer, William H
Hussey, Curtis G
Hussey, C Curtis
Park, William G
Clark, William
Miller, Reuben
Holley, Alexander
Hemphill, James
Mackintosh, W S
Carnegie, Phipps & Company
Schwab, Charles
Kennedy, Julian
Aiken, Henry
Wellman, Samuel
Frick, Henry Clay
Mackintosh-Hemphill
Bethlehem Iron Company
Defense Plant Corporation
Dravo Engineering
American Bridge Company
Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company
Brown Hoisting Machinery Company
Allis-Chalmers
Keystone Bridge Works
United Engineering
Hoffman, LeRoy L.
Crumpton, Kenneth R.
Russky-Narodny-Dom, Inc.
Wickerham, R. G.
Steel Industry Heritage Task Force , sponsor
Steel Industry Heritage Corporation , sponsor
Debolt, Jo H. , project manager
Carlino, August , project manager
Fitzsimons, Gray , project manager
Herrin, Dean A. , transmitter
Bennett, Michael G. , transmitter
Davidson, Lisa Pfueller , transmitter
Brown, Mark M. , historian
Lowe, Jet , photographer
Stupich, Martin , photographer
Strong, Craig , field team supervisor
Marston, Christopher H. , delineator
Schylter, Camilla , delineator
Williams, Patrick , delineator - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
- Medium:
Color Transparencies: 1
Measured Drawing(s): 13
Data Page(s): 194
Photo Caption Page(s): 1 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
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)
- Call Number: HAER PA, 2-HOME,2-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: Established in 1879, Homestead Works is one of six plants (Homestead, Edgar Thomson, Duquesne, Irvin, National and Clairton) which, until the collapse in 1982, comprised U.S. Steel's Mon Valley works. In 1883, Andrew Carnegie acquired the works and transformed Homestead from a Bessemer rail mill to a highly mechanized, fully integrated heavy products mill. Open Hearth No. 1 was the first facility for large scale commercial production of basic open hearth steel in the country. Homestead rivaled all other mills in structural steel production during the late-nineteenth-century. The armor forging plant at Homestead played a central role in the development of American sea power and the American military-industrial complex. Homestead was a leader in the use of machinery such as hydraulic and electric cranes to reduce labor and increase production tonnage. In 1901, Homestead, along with the rest of Carnegie Steel, was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation in a consolidation of the steel industry. Expansion to meet the production demands of World War I and World War II generated important periods of change at Homestead. Also, during the 1920s U.S. Steel modernized Homestead's structural mills in an effort to stay competitive with Bethlehem Steel. Postwar technical developments at the Homestead Works included the commercial development of high-strength alloy steel plate. After the Korean War, the forge division tooled up to produce nuclear containment vessels and electric generator shafts. 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: N359
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N761
- Survey number: HAER PA-200
- Building/structure dates: 1879 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1883 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1895- 1899 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1917 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1926 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1941- 1944 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1990-1993 Demolished
- Subjects:
- steel mills
- steel industry
- labor unions
- ordnance industry
- blooming mills
- rolling mills (rails)
- rolling mills (structural shapes)
- rolling mills (plates)
- forging presses
- brick buildings
- steel structural frames
- corrugated metal siding
- open-hearth steel
- blast furnaces
- Warren trusses
- pump houses
- concrete block buildings
- Fink roof trusses
- office buildings
- machine shops
- power plants
- railroad car dumpers
- blowing engines
- Pennsylvania through trusses
- Baltimore trusses
- motors
- motor rooms
- Pratt roof trusses
- International Style architectural elements
- laboratories
- carpenter workshop
- patterns
- fraternal lodges
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 40.403576, -79.919312
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: 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
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HAER PA, 2-HOME,2-
- Medium:
Color Transparencies: 1
Measured Drawing(s): 13
Data Page(s): 194
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
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- Call Number: HAER PA, 2-HOME,2-
- Medium:
Color Transparencies: 1
Measured Drawing(s): 13
Data Page(s): 194
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
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