Minnequa Steel Works Office Building & Dispensary Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (Steelworks Museum of Industry and Culture)
Pueblo County
The Mission Revival style buildings at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company’s Minnequa Steel Works illustrate the growth of what became the largest single employer in the Pueblo region. They reflect the rapid improvements made to accommodate support services for the steel plant as it grew to become one of the largest iron and steel plants in the United States by 1906.
Minnequa Steel Works Office Building & Dispensary Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (Steelworks Museum of Industry and Culture) (1999 photograph.)
Prominent Denver architect Frederick H. Sterner designed the original 1901 office building and 1902 dispensary. Pueblo architects continued the Mission style, with William Stickney designing the 1921 addition to the office building and Walter DeMordaunt the 1926 addition to the dispensary. The Bessemer Historical Society is working to rehabilitate the historic buildings for use in its interpretive program.