Historic Map - Wilmerding, PA - 1897

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1WA-WI-1897
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View of Wilmerding, Allegheny County, P.A., 1897 / drawn & published by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer.

This aero-view print of Wilmerding, Pennsylvania was drawn by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler and published by Fowler & Moyer in 1897. Wilmerding was established along Turtle Creek when, in the 1880's, George Westinghouse purchased the land on the south side of the creek for an air-brake manufacturing plant.

Wilmerding evolved around the facility and was incorporated as a borough in 1880. The Westinghouse Air Brake general office building on Marguerite Avenue was built in 1889-90 and rebuilt, following a fire, in 1896.

When rebuilt, the Renaissance Revival and Romanesque structure attained its famed clock tower. A boiler house at the building was used to supply power to not only the plant, but a great deal of the borough itself.

The map from 1897 includes labeled streets, buildings and railroad route.

Features numbered & lettered references to the following locations:

1. Public Schools.
2. City Hall.
3. General Office. Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
4. Glen Hotel. G. W. Gibson, Proprietor.
5. Central Hotel. J. H. Cunningham, Proprietor.
6. Hotel Harris. Frank Harris, Proprietor.
7. The Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
8. P. R. R. Station.
A. At. Aloysius Catholic Church.
B. M. E. Church.
C. United Presbyterian Church.
D. United Brethren Church.

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