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The House Where We Began being moved from Sharpsburg

1904

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The House Where We Began being moved from Sharpsburg
  • Title
  • The House Where We Began being moved from Sharpsburg
  • Identifier
  • MSP57.B006.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP57.B006.I03
  • Description
  • “The House Where We Began” in the process of being moved from its original location in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, to the H.J. Heinz Company main plant in Allegheny City, currently Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. The structure was transported five miles down the Allegheny River during a flood and placed next to the Covode Building, a settlement house named in honor of Jacob Covode, who helped H.J. Heinz during financial difficulties in 1875 and 1876. H.J Heinz helped his father build this house and lived in it from the age of ten until his marriage there at age twenty-five. He and his partner Noble started the business at the house in 1869 where they grated and bottled his horseradish in the kitchen. H.J. Heinz decided to move the house to the main plant so that it can serve as a museum and memorial where visitors could read about the evolution of the company. H.J. Heinz was unwilling to have the house razed and reconstructed, so he hired Kress-Hanlon Company to move the structure down the Allegheny River. Kress-Hanlon Company jacked up the house on blocking timbers, trussed it with cables and rolled it 800 feet from Main Street in Sharpsburg to the right bank of the Allegheny River on March 1. In 1952 the house was dismantled and rebuilt in Greenfield Village, Michigan.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Heinz House (Sharpsburg, Pa.)
    Sharpsburg (Pa.)
    House moving--Pennsylvania--Sharpsburg.
    Kress-Hanlon Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • H.J. Heinz Company, Photographs, 1864-1991, MSP 57, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • H.J. Heinz Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center