Area less than one acre Architectural style Poured concrete Added to NRHP 17 June 2009 | Built 1910 (1910) Opened 1910 | |
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Location 633 W. 4th AvenueGary, Indiana Architect D.F. Creighton; United States Sheet & Tin Plate Co. MPS Concrete in Steel City: The Edison Concept Houses of Gary Indiana MS Similar Knights of Columbus Building, St Augustine's Episcopal, Adam Benjamin Metro Ce, Wirt‑Emerson Visual and Performin, Grand Calumet River | ||
The American Sheet and Tin Mill Apartment Building, one of the Edison Concept Houses, is a historic building at 633 West 4th Avenue in Gary, Indiana. The building was designed by D. F. Creighton and built in 1910. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 2009. It was built by the United States Sheet & Tin Plate Co.
Thousands moved to Gary in the early 1900s for work in burgeoning steel industry. Providing housing quickly and affordably, Thomas Edison's 1906 proposal of pouring a concrete mixture into a single mold for the facades, roof, stairs, walls, and other parts of a house was adopted for company housing (Edison was not directly involved).
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