NRHP Reference # 98000397 Year built 1899 | Area 24 ha Added to NRHP 7 May 1998 | |
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Location Roughly along the Allegheny River, from Sixteenth St. to Seventh St., New Kensington, Pennsylvania MPS Aluminum Industry Resources of Southwestern Pennsylvania MPS | ||
New Kensington Production Works Historic District, also known as the New Kensington Works and Arnold Works, is a national historic district located at New Kensington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 35 contributing vernacular industrial buildings built between about 1899 and 1947. It was the original manufacturing plant for Alcoa and produced a wide range of aluminum products including kitchen utensils, rods, bars, wire, tubing, sheet foil, automobile parts, bronze powder, industrial chemical utensils, and beer barrels.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
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New Kensington Production Works Historic District Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA