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Building Gary, Harrison Street and Seventh Avenue, 1906

Building Gary, Harrison Street and Seventh Avenue, 1906
The steel company and its subsidiaries built homes as well as commercial structures, expecting to sell or rent the residences to future steel mill employees. Many of the homes built on land owned by the steel company proved to be financially out of reach for most laborers in the mills, who instead purchased or rented less expensive homes built further south of the lakefront plant.