Construction at Mesta Machine Company

1916-09-11

Title
Construction at Mesta Machine Company
Creator
unknown
Identifier
MSP210.B013.I01
Description
The Mesta Machine Company plant, located about six miles from Pittsburgh, covered more than twenty acres and employed approximately three thousand employees, most of whom were skilled mechanics, in the early twentieth century. Some of the buildings, all of which were fireproof, that occupied the site included machine shops, forge shops, a pattern shop, an iron foundry, a steel and brass foundry, and laboratories. The Mesta Machine Company was one of the leading manufacturers of machine tool and steel mill equipment for during the first half of the twentieth century.
Subject
Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)
West Homestead (Pa.)
Buildings--Design and construction--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Mesta Machine Company Photographs
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