Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Administrative Complex National Historic Landmark Nomination
Simmons T and Simmons R. 2021. Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Administrative Complex National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Historic Landmark Nominations. 100006242_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is the National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Administrative Complex in Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado. The NHL nomination for Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Administrative Complex documents its national significance under NHL Criterion 1 as a campus of buildings constructed in 1901 as the company headquarters for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I), the Trans-Mississippi West’s pioneer steelmaker and principal fuel enterprise. The Administrative Complex is the property that best represents the history of CF&I, comprising the center of the firm’s operations, where the company’s direction and policies were planned, formulated, and implemented. The district possesses national significance for its influential role in the development of the American economy through industrial extraction and production in the early twentieth century and as the central location from which the company’s wide ranging business operations were administered on a day-to-day basis. The company achieved national prominence in 1882 as the nation’s first fully integrated steel manufacturing facility west of St. Louis, a position it retained until 1942. The enterprise garnered additional national significance as the West’s dominant coal mine operator and coke distributor, representing an important aspect of the country’s fuel history and illuminating historic processes that shaped America’s natural and physical environment. The complex is further nationally significant for its impact on labor and work culture through creation of CF&I’s 1915 Employee Representation Plan (ERP), which stimulated the adoption of hundreds of similar measures throughout the country in the 1910s and 1920s.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Simmons, Thomas H.; Simmons, R. Laurie
- Date of Issue
- 2021-01-13
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- CF&I, Colorado, Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Employee Representation Plan, Frederick J Sterner, Industry, Labor, National Historic Landmark, Pueblo, Rockefeller, Steel, Walter DeMordaunt, William A. Robb, William W. Stickney