File:Phoenix Iron Company, Foundry Building, Main Street at Mill Street, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA HAER PA,15-PHOEN,4A- (sheet 7 of 10).tif

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HAER PA,15-PHOEN,4A- (sheet 7 of 10) - Phoenix Iron Company, Foundry Building, Main Street at Mill Street, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA
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HAER PA,15-PHOEN,4A- (sheet 7 of 10) - Phoenix Iron Company, Foundry Building, Main Street at Mill Street, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA
Description
Coffin, Amory; DeLony, Eric N, project manager; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, sponsor; Lowe, Jet, photographer; Shackleford, Ben A, historian; Gordon, Susan H, delineator; Hanley, James P, delineator; Maleeva, Julia, delineator; Wallace, Grace H, delineator; Zsembery, Rachel J, delineator
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Chester County; Phoenixville
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,15-PHOEN,4A- (sheet 7 of 10)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Iron work began on the banks of French Creek in 1783 and continued, weathering massive changes in ferrous metalworking techniques, for 200 years. The foundry produced castings ancillary to the Phoenix Iron and Steel Company's main business as a manufacturer and fabricator of steel structures. Among these ancillary items were joint blocks used to connect the Phoenix columns of bridges erected by the Phoenix Bridge Company, a wholly owned engineering and fabrication subsidiary of the steel works...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N594
  • Survey number: HAER PA-493-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1882 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3839.sheet.00007a
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Object location40° 07′ 49.01″ N, 75° 30′ 55.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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