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Photo, Print, Drawing York Manufacturing Company, Bounded by West Philadelphia, North Hartley, & Roosevelt Streets, York, York County, PA

[ Photos from Survey HABS PA-6011  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HABS PA-6011  ]
[ Photo Captions from Survey HABS PA-6011  ]

About this Item

Title

  • York Manufacturing Company, Bounded by West Philadelphia, North Hartley, & Roosevelt Streets, York, York County, PA

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Dempwolf, John A.
  • Loucks, Jacob
  • Glatfelter, Philip H.
  • Shipley, Thomas
  • Lauer, Stewart
  • Smith, S. Morgan
  • York Company
  • Borg-Warner Company
  • St. Clair, Stuart
  • Wrought Iron Bridge Building Company
  • Morgan Engineering Company
  • York County Industrial Development Corporation, sponsor
  • Thomas, George E, historian
  • Perloff, Carol Benenson, historian
  • Runyan, C Stanley, historian
  • Tanner, Lewis, photographer
  • Christianson, Justine, transmitter
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  warehouses
  • -  factories
  • -  railroad tracks
  • -  smokestacks
  • -  brick buildings
  • -  manufacturing
  • -  engine rooms
  • -  blacksmith shops
  • -  pyramidal roofs
  • -  roofing slate
  • -  hoppers
  • -  coal-fired power plants
  • -  machine shops
  • -  steel structural frames
  • -  curtain walls
  • -  metal roof trusses
  • -  brick arches
  • -  cornices
  • -  stone foundations
  • -  fanlights
  • -  cranes
  • -  office buildings
  • -  Victorian architectural elements
  • -  stonework (brownstone)
  • -  round-topped windows
  • -  fire-resistive construction
  • -  pedestrian bridges
  • -  copperwork
  • -  Colonial Revival architectural elements
  • -  dentils
  • -  wood block floors
  • -  foundries
  • -  cornices
  • -  monitors (roof appendages)
  • -  wood structural frames
  • -  sash windows
  • -  concrete floors
  • -  storage facilities
  • -  hoisting machinery
  • -  double-hung windows
  • -  segmental arches
  • -  steel columns
  • -  light courts
  • -  freight elevators
  • -  Pennsylvania--York County--York

Latitude / Longitude

  • 39.961013,-76.74006

Notes

  • -  Significance: By the 1880s, the York Manufacturing Company was one of the nation's leading producers of refrigeration equipment. In the early 20th century it helped establish experimental and verifiable industry standards through the efforts of its testing laboratory. In the 20th century, York pioneered new applications of cooling including dehumidification and cooling. The plant is of added interest as the work of one of York's principal architects, J.A. Dempwolf. Dempwolf designed the original core group of buildings in 1895 and made the first enlargement to the plant shortly thereafter.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2458
  • -  Survey number: HABS PA-6011
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1895 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1909 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1926 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1994 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1905 Subsequent Work

Medium

  • Photo(s): 69
  • Data Page(s): 53
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 20

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS PA,67-YORK,17-

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

  • pa2957

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, John A Dempwolf, Jacob Loucks, Philip H Glatfelter, Thomas Shipley, Stewart Lauer, S. Morgan Smith, et al., Tanner, Lewis, photographer. York Manufacturing Company, Bounded by West Philadelphia, North Hartley, & Roosevelt Streets, York, York County, PA. York County York Pennsylvania, 1933. translateds by Christianson, Justinemitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/pa2957/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Dempwolf, J. A., Loucks, J., Glatfelter, P. H., Shipley, T., Lauer, S. [...] Runyan, C. S., Tanner, L., photographer. (1933) York Manufacturing Company, Bounded by West Philadelphia, North Hartley, & Roosevelt Streets, York, York County, PA. York County York Pennsylvania, 1933. Christianson, J. & McPartland, M., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/pa2957/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al., photographer by Tanner, Lewis. York Manufacturing Company, Bounded by West Philadelphia, North Hartley, & Roosevelt Streets, York, York County, PA. trans by Christianson, Justinemitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/pa2957/>.