Harbison-Walker Refractories Company

	Harbison-Walker Refractories Company
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
	Harbison-Walker engine repair house, May 1989
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Location	W. Shirley St., Mount Union, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°23′10″N 77°53′23″W / 40.38611°N 77.88972°WCoordinates: 40°23′10″N 77°53′23″W / 40.38611°N 77.88972°W
Area	21 acres (8.5 ha)
Built	1899, 1905
MPS	Industrial Resources of Huntingdon County, 1780--1939 MPS
NRHP reference No.	90000392
Added to NRHP	March 20, 1990

Harbison-Walker Refractories Company originated as the Star Firebrick Company on March 7, 1865, with Articles of Association by a group of Pittsburgh and Allegheny residents. On January 30, 1875, Hay Walker Sr. and Samuel P. Harbison entered Articles of Agreement to purchase the interests in Star Fire Brick Company and formed the Harbison and Walker Company. Then on July 30, 1894, Harbison & Walker was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, finally being chartered as Harbison-Walker Refractories Company by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 30, 1902.^[2] Ultimately this company was merged into Dresser Industries in 1967.^[3]

The company was part of the Fortune 500 from 1955 until 1967.^[4]

In 2015 a successor company in Pittsburgh adopted the Harbison-Walker name and brand as its own.^[5]

A national historic district and historic refractory brick manufacturing complex located at Mount Union in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It consists of 14 contributing buildings and 27 contributing structures. They were built in two sections; the No. 2 works date to 1899 and the No. 1 works date to 1905. Principal buildings and structures include brick kilns; mixing, molding, and drying facilities; storage and shipping sheds; a pattern making building; and crushing and screening facilities.^[6]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It is located in the Mount Union Historic District, established in 1994.^[1]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ MacCloskey, James E., Jr (1952). History of Harbison-Walker Refractories Company. Pittsburgh, PA.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "FORTUNE 500: Harbison-Walker Refractories".
^ http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/morning-edition/2015/01/anh-refractories-rebrands-as-harbisonwalker.html
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Deborah L. Suciu (August 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Harbison-Walker Refractories Company" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-02.

External links[]

Official company website
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-242, "Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, West end of Shirley Street, Mount Union, Huntingdon County, PA", 9 photos, 1 color transparency, 8 data pages, 3 photo caption pages
HAER No. PA-242-A, "Harbison-Walker Refractories Company", 4 photos, 1 color transparency, 2 photo caption pages
HAER No. PA-242-B, "Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Kiln", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page
HAER No. PA-242-C, "Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Molding Room", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page
HAER No. PA-242-D, "Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Packing Shed", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page
HAER No. PA-242-E, "Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Rotary Dryer & Storage Silos", 2 photos, 1 photo caption page

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[nris-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] MacCloskey, James E., Jr (1952). History of Harbison-Walker Refractories Company. Pittsburgh, PA.

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "FORTUNE 500: Harbison-Walker Refractories".

[5] ttp://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/morning-edition/2015/01/anh-refractories-rebrands-as-harbisonwalker.html

[arch-6] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Deborah L. Suciu (August 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Harbison-Walker Refractories Company" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-02.

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