{{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Harbison-Walker Refractories Company | nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | nrhp_type2 = cp | image = Harbison-Walker engine repair house.jpg | caption = Harbison-Walker engine repair house, May 1989 | location = W. Shirley St., Mount Union, Pennsylvania | coordinates = {{coord|40|23|10|N|77|53|23|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Pennsylvania#USA | built = 1899, 1905 | added = March 20, 1990 | area = {{convert|21|acre}} | mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64500531|title=Industrial Resources of Huntingdon County, 1780--1939 MPS}} | refnum = 90000392<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} The '''Harbison-Walker Refractories Company''' is a national historic district and historic refractory brick manufacturing complex which is located in Mount Union in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It originated as the Star Firebrick Company on March 7, 1865, with Articles of Association by a group of Pittsburgh and Allegheny residents.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It is located in the Mount Union Historic District, established in 1994.<ref name="nris"/>
==History== On January 30, 1875, Hay Walker Sr. and Samuel P. Harbison entered Articles of Agreement to purchase the interests in Star Fire Brick Company and formed the Harbison and Walker Company. Then on July 30, 1894, Harbison & Walker was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, finally being chartered as Harbison-Walker Refractories Company by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 30, 1902.<ref>{{Cite book|last=MacCloskey|first=James E. Jr|title=History of Harbison-Walker Refractories Company|year=1952|location=Pittsburgh, PA}}</ref> Ultimately this company was merged into Dresser Industries in 1967.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/business/pghannualreports.html |title=Pittsburgh Company Annual Reports, Downtown & Business, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |access-date=2014-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222175352/http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/business/pghannualreports.html |archive-date=2014-02-22 }}</ref>
The company was part of the Fortune 500 from 1955 until 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/snapshots/1967/3132.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518120604/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/snapshots/1967/3132.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |title = FORTUNE 500: Harbison-Walker Refractories}}</ref>
In 2015, a successor company in Pittsburgh adopted the name HarbisonWalker International.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/morning-edition/2015/01/anh-refractories-rebrands-as-harbisonwalker.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150122021532/http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/morning-edition/2015/01/anh-refractories-rebrands-as-harbisonwalker.html| archive-date = 2015-01-22| title = ANH Refractories rebrands as HarbisonWalker International - Pittsburgh Business Times}}</ref>
A national historic district and historic refractory brick manufacturing complex which is located in Mount Union in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, the Harbison-Walker Refractories Company property consists of fourteen contributing buildings and twenty-seven contributing structures, which were built in two sections; the No. 2 works date to 1899 and the No. 1 works date to 1905. Principal buildings and structures include brick kilns; mixing, molding, and drying facilities; storage and shipping sheds; a pattern making building; and crushing and screening facilities.<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993045 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania MPS Harbison--Walker Refractories Company|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author= Deborah L. Suciu| date= August 1989| access-date=December 21, 2025 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official|hwr.com}} *Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation, filed under Mount Union, Huntingdon County, PA: **{{HABS |survey=PA-5973 |id=pa2821 |title=Refractories Company Towns |data=59 |link=no}} **{{HABS |survey=PA-6004 |id=pa2849 |title=Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Manager's House, 213 Shirley Street |photos=1 |cap=1 |link=no}} *Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under West end of Shirley Street, Mount Union, Huntingdon County, PA: **{{HAER |survey=PA-242 |id=pa2723 |title=Harbison-Walker Refractories Company |photos=9 |color=1 |data=5 |cap=3 |link=no}} **{{HAER |survey=PA-242-A |id=pa2724 |title=Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Engine Repair House |photos=4 |color=1 |cap=2 |link=no}} **{{HAER |survey=PA-242-B |id=pa2725 |title=Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Kiln |photos=1 |cap=1 |link=no}} **{{HAER |survey=PA-242-C |id=pa2726 |title=Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Molding Room |photos=1 |cap=1 |link=no}} **{{HAER |survey=PA-242-D |id=pa2727 |title=Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Packing Shed |photos=1 |cap=1 |link=no}} **{{HAER |survey=PA-242-E |id=pa2728 |title=Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Rotary Dryer and Storage Silos |photos=2 |cap=1 |link=no}}
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Category:Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania Category:Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Category:Buildings and structures in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Category:National Register of Historic Places in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Category:1902 establishments in Pennsylvania Category:American companies established in 1902