The House Where We Began at the H.J. Heinz Company Main Plant

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The House Where We Began at the H.J. Heinz Company Main Plant

Title
The House Where We Began at the H.J. Heinz Company Main Plant
Identifier
MSP57.B006.I09
Source Identifier
MSP57.B006.I09
Description
“The House Where We Began” at its new home at the H.J. Heinz Company main plant in Allegheny City, currently Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. The structure was moved intact from its original location in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, five miles up the Allegheny River. H.J Heinz helped his father build this house fifty years ago 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. “The House Where We Began” was 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. In 1952 the house was dismantled and rebuilt in Greenfield Village, Michigan.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Heinz House (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
H.J. Heinz Company.
North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Allegheny (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
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Rights Holder
Senator John Heinz History Center