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Photo, Print, Drawing U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

[ Photos from Survey HAER PA-200  ]

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About this Item

Title

  • U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

Names

  • Historic American Engineering Record, creator
  • 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

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

  • -  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
  • -  Pennsylvania--Allegheny County--Homestead

Latitude / Longitude

  • 40.403576,-79.919312

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

Medium

  • Color Transparencies: 1
  • Measured Drawing(s): 13
  • Data Page(s): 194
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 1

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HAER PA, 2-HOME,2-

Source Collection

  • Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • pa2223

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Andrew Carnegie, U.S. Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Company, Andrew Kloman, William H Singer, Curtis G Hussey, et al., Lowe, Jet, and Martin Stupich, photographer. U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA. Allegheny County Homestead Pennsylvania, 1968. translateds by Herrin, Dean A.Mitter, Bennett, Michael G.Mitter, and Davidson, Lisa Pfuellermitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/pa2223/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, C., Carnegie, A., U.S. Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Company, Kloman, A., Singer, W. H. [...] Williams, P., Lowe, J. & Stupich, M., photographer. (1968) U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA. Allegheny County Homestead Pennsylvania, 1968. Herrin, D. A. M., Bennett, M. G. M. & Davidson, L. P., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/pa2223/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, et al., photographers by Lowe, Jet, and Martin Stupich. U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Along Monongahela River, north of Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA. trans by Herrin, Dean A.Mitter, Bennett, Michael G.Mitter, and Davidson, Lisa Pfuellermitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/pa2223/>.