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Steel Beams- Renaissance Court, Worcester Art Museum. 1930's

     In the early 20th Century, the Carnegie Steel Company was a major industrial force in the United States, a veritable Goliath. Carnegie's only able competition was their Pittsburgh neighbor, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. When the Worcester Art Museum added the Renaissance Court building in the early 1930's, contractors used steel beams from both rival companies in it's construction. For what it's worth, the Carnegie beams seem to have endured the subsequent 80 years slightly better.