National Register of Historic Places
Consolidated Ice Company Factory No. 2
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- November 8, 2000
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 100 43rd St., Pittsburgh
- County
- Allegheny
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1900 to 1974
- Contributing resources
- 2 buildings
- Coordinates
- 40.47449, -79.96390
- Reference number
- 00001348
The story
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The Consolidated Ice Company Factory No. 2 is a brick building at 100 43rd St. in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, built in 1907 in the Romanesque style and designed by Alden and Harlow. It was listed in the National Register in 2000.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C for local significance in industry and architecture, with a period of significance from 1907, when built, to 1951, when it closed.
Physical character
The two-story brick building has a concrete foundation, a flat asphalt roof with saw-tooth skylight monitors, and round-arched window openings with a corbeled brick cornice. It was enlarged in 1914-1923 with connector and transfer-storage additions, and two metal additions followed in 1951. Windows were filled with glass block around the 1940s, and remaining openings closed with concrete block in the 1950s.
Historical context
Chautauqua-Eureka merged with five other firms in 1899 to form Consolidated Ice Company, which bought the lot in 1906 and built Factory No. 2 in 1907. It operated until 1951, when the factory closed and the company was purchased by City Products Company. It was converted to a storage warehouse around the 1950s; Pennwalt Chemicals occupied it in the 1970s, and Schreiber Industrial Equipment Company bought it in 1976.