The Character of a Steel Mill City: Four Historic Neighborhoods of Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Wallace K, Gillespie N, Goslin B, Hartman T, Hickey J, Powell C. 1989. The Character of a Steel Mill City: Four Historic Neighborhoods of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Washington, DC
The city of Johnstown is located in the Laurel Highlands section of the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania. Johnstown is one of many communities in the western Pennsylvania "rust belt" that were dependent on a single, contracting industry. One strategy developed to help rebuild these local economies is the America’s Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), a federally funded program focusing on nine western Pennsylvania counties. AIHP’s primary purpose is to develop the past as a component of promoting regional tourism, salvaging the industrial economy as a resource for another kind of product. This report was prepared by the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), Robert J. Kapsch, chief, at the request of America’s Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP). Research was conducted in the summer of 1988 by six HABS historians. Because HABS’s mandate is to document specific buildings, this history of the city of Johnstown has been written to contextualize and highlight its built environment. The responsibility to document specific buildings and use them as a basis for research necessarily restricted this aspect of the study.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wallace, Kim; Gillespie, Natalie; Goslin, Bernadette; Hartman, Terri; Hickey, Jeffrey; Powell, Cheryl
- Date of Issue
- 1989
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- CRPS
- Keywords
- AIHP, HABS, HAER, industry