Steelworks Center of the West, Pueblo

Name: Steelworks Center of the West
Address: Pueblo, United States

#27 among attractions in Pueblo

Museum, History museum

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The Steelworks Center of the West, is a non-profit organization focused on preserving the history of the coal and steel industry in the Western United States. Based in Pueblo, Colorado and formerly known as the Bessemer Historical Society, which took its name from the community of Bessemer, site of the Colorado Coal and Iron Bessemer Works which was named after the Bessemer process for making steel invented by Henry Bessemer. ()

Coordinates: 38°14'16"N, 104°36'43"W

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BessemerPueblo United States

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Steelworks Center of the West – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Steelworks Museum, Pueblo Levee Mural Project, St. John's Greek Orthodox Church, Runyon Lake.

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Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Steelworks Museum, Pueblo
1 min walk • The Steelworks Museum is located in Pueblo, Colorado. Operated by the Steelworks Center of the West, the museum is in the historic Minnequa Steel Works Office Building and Dispensary of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
1.2 miN
Museum, Art gallery
Pueblo Levee Mural Project, Pueblo
32 min walk • The Pueblo Levee Mural Project is a mural along a levee of the Arkansas River certified by the Guinness Book of Records as the longest painting in the world. It is a 3-mile long continuous mural located in Pueblo, Colorado.
0.8 miN
Church
St. John's Greek Orthodox Church, Pueblo
22 min walk • St. John's Greek Orthodox Church is a historic church building in Pueblo, Colorado. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It is a beautiful Classical Revival-style church. It has two-story Ionic columns.
1.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Runyon Lake, Pueblo
34 min walk • Runyon Lake is located in Pueblo, Colorado. It was originally used as a dredge pond for the Rocky Mountain Steel Mill, it is approximately 35 acres in size, and is fed by the Arkansas River.
1.3 miNW
Church, Romanesque architecture
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Pueblo
35 min walk • The old First Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a historic redbrick Southern Methodist church building located at 400 Broadway in Pueblo, Colorado. Designed by George W.
1.3 miNW
Church, Romanesque architecture
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Pueblo
35 min walk • First Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church at 215 Washington Street in Monte Vista, Colorado. It was built beginning in 1922 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It is 78 by 86.5 feet in plan. The listing includes a parsonage built in 1901.