6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Banquet at Westinghouse Castle
Join us at the Westinghouse Castle in Wilmerding, PA, the corporate offices of the Westinghouse Airbrake Company from 1886 to 1985. The Castle, located in the small Monongahela community of Wilmerding, was designed by Frederick Osterling in 1886 for George Westinghouse’s company, makers of railroad and industrial pneumatic devices. The building was listed on the Nation Register of Historical Places in 1987 and is included on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Designations of Historic Allegheny Buildings. The castle, with fifty five thousand square feet of office and dining areas in fifty seven rooms, is constructed of Indiana limestone. The interior has the original marble floors, corridors, brass fixtures, and oak woodwork throughout including a working four-face clock tower added in 1897.
We will eat in the corporate offices, enjoy a cash bar, and have full access to the site’s museums and hidden treasures like George Westinghouse’s office, company vaults, the clock tower (only accessible via steep ladders and dirty crawl spaces), and if accessible, one of the few remaining, albeit inoperable, water-powered elevators.
It should be an interesting bus ride too. We’ll pass by the former Homestead works and the last remaining Pittsburgh blast furnace, the off-limits USX Edgar Thompson works at Braddock.
