633 W. 4th Ave., Gary, Indiana. County/parish: Lake.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 17, 2009. NRIS 09000427.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The American Sheet and Tin Mill Apartment Building, one of the Edison Concept Houses, is a historic building at 633 West 4th Avenue in Gary, Indiana. The building was designed by D. F. Creighton and constructed in 1910. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 2009. It was built by the United States Sheet & Tin Plate Co.
Thousands moved to Gary in the early 1900s for work in the burgeoning steel industry. Providing housing quickly and affordably, Thomas Edison's 1906 proposal of pouring a concrete mixture into a single mold for the façades, roof, stairs, walls, and other parts of a house was adopted for company housing (Edison was not directly involved).
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132001822