McClintic-Marshall Company

McClintic-Marshall Company (also McClintic-Marshall Construction Company ) was one of the largest American steel and steel construction companies.

Howard Hale McClintic and Charles Donnell Marshall, both graduates of Lehigh University in 1888, had founded the Shiffler Bridge Company with three other partners in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania in 1890 , but in 1900 it was merged with 22 other bridge construction companies to form the American Bridge Company and then by Andrew Carnegie and US Steel were controlled.

McClintic and Marshall then founded the McClintic-Marshall Company in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, later in Pittsburgh , in 1900 with start-up capital made available by Andrew W. Mellon . The company grew rapidly and by 1930 was the largest independent steel producer in the country and a renowned steel construction company.

McClintic-Marshall Company's projects include:

• Beaver Bridge over the Ohio River (1910)
• Panama Canal (steel construction on the locks, except for the gates supplied by Dravo Corp.)
• Pittsburgh City-County Building (1917)
• Sciotoville Bridge (1917)
• Ramps of the Hell Gate Bridge (1918)
• Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge over the Hudson River (1924)
• Mount Hope Bridge to Rhode Island (1929)
• Ambassador Bridge over the Detroit River (1929)
• Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River in Iowa (1931)
• George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River (1931)
• Empire State Building (50%) in New York (1931)
• Waldorf-Astoria in New York (1931)
• Anthony Wayne Bridge over the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio (1931)
• General Pulaski Skyway , Newark - Jersey City (1932)
• Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1932)
• Golden Gate Bridge (1937)

In 1931, the company, which paid out $ 8 million in dividends, was acquired by Bethlehem Steel for $ 32 million. When the Golden Gate Bridge was built, it was renamed the Fabricated Steel Construction Division of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation until it was finally incorporated into this company.

A building at Lehigh University is named after the two founders. Charles D. Marshall's Pittsburgh residential building, completed in 1912, is now the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts .

Web links

• McClintic, Howard on the Lehigh University website
• Marshall, Charles D. at Lehigh University website
• Kenneth Warren: Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America . University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8229-4323-5 , p. 126
• McClintic-Marshall Co. List of a number of other bridges on bridgehunter.com