The Character of a Steel Mill City

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Excerpt from The Character of a Steel Mill City: Four Historic Neighborhoods of Johnstown, PennsylvaniaThe studies of Westmont, Cambria City, and Minersville began with a survey to collect baseline documentation of all the buildings within the established boundaries. Team members filled out a basic information sheet for each building, recording its address, exterior materials, number of stories, roof shape, and present use. Sanborn tire-insurance maps covering most of the survey areas provided approximate dates for the buildings, as well as their original use and structural material. All of this information was coded and entered into a computer database-a listing appears in Appendix B. Baseline documentation also included making a black and white 35mm photograph of each building, excluding those obviously constructed after 1949, the latest date included in the survey.After the initial survey was completed, 10 percent of residential buildings and all the institutional buildings for each neighborhood were studied in greater detail. The residential sample includes buildings representative of the neighborhood's geographic range, of both multiple and single-family residences, and of the range of styles and size of houses. Building summaries were then written for each of these institutional and residential buildings. The summary includes a brief description and a history based on research into deed and tax records.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.