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Joliet Iron & Steel Company, Joliet Works, West of Collins Street, north of State Street, Joliet, Will County, IL

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Joliet Iron & Steel Company, Joliet Works, West of Collins Street, north of State Street, Joliet, Will County, IL

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Summary

Significance: With its earliest buildings dating to the 1870s, the extensive Joliet Iron Works is distinguished for being the ninth operating Bessemer steel plant (1873) and for its architecturally outstanding office (1873).
Survey number: HAER IL-57
Building/structure dates: 1869 Initial Construction

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Date

1969 - 1980

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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Union Coal,Iron & Transportation

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Location

Joliet (Ill.), 41.53407, -88.07751

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Library of Congress

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