Historic Map - New Kensington, PA - 1902

View of New Kensington, Westmoreland County, P.A., 1902 / drawn & published by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer.

This panoramic view of New Kensington, Pennsylvania was drawn by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler and published by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer in 1902. New Kensington was founded in 1891 as a vision of the Burrell Improvement Company. The company bought the farmlands that existed there along the Allegheny River and sold them, with riverfront parcels reserved for industry. For three days prospective buyers waded through corn fields with only furrows for streets and by the end the company sold $135,000 in property.

By 1902, a great number of manufacturers had relocated to New Kensington including the Sterling White Lead Company, the Bradley Stove Works, the Pennsylvania Tin Plate Company and the Excelsior Lamp Chimney Co. which later merged into the town’s largest employer, the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. This manufacturer would later become the Alcoa Aluminum Company.

The 1902 map includes streets, buildings and railroad routes.

Features numbered & lettered references to the following locations:

1. Public Schools.
2. Town Hall.
3. Electric Light Plant.
4. Hotel Heckman. Oswald Heckman, Proprietor.
5. Central Hotel. Joseph Beltz, Proprietor.
6. Hotel Layton. E. C. Layton, Proprietor.
7. International Hotel. Mrs. Margaret Van Heyste, Proprietor.
8. Fifth Avenue Hotel. D. M. Yetter, Proprietor.
9. New Kensington Milling Co., Ltd.
10. American Tin Plate Co. (Pennsylvania Works).
11. The Pittsburg Reduction Co.
12. Hussey Steel Co.
13. American Tin Plate Co. (Pittsburg Plant).
14. Sterling White Lead Co.
15. New Kensington Brewery.
16. Planing Mill. T. S. Kennedy, Proprietor.
17. Glenn Drilling Co.
18. Gambrinus Brewery.

1. First Baptist Church.
2. First Methodist Episcopal Church.
3. First Presbyterian Church.
4. First Lutheran Church.
5. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
6. St. Mary’s Polish Catholic Church.
7. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.
8. Trinity Reformed Church.
9. German Baptist Church.
10. German Ev. Lutheran Church.
11. Episcopal Church.
12. United Presbyterian Church.
13. Reformed Presbyterian Church.
14. Parnassus Presbyterian Church.