Lukens Historic District

Infobox_nrhp | name =Lukens Historic District
nrhp_type =nhld


caption =
location= 50, 53, 76, & 102 S. First St., Coatesville, Pennsylvania
locmapin = Pennsylvania
area =
built =1825
architect= Cope & Stewardson
architecture= Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Gothic
designated= April 19, 1994cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1660&ResourceType=District
title=Lukens Historic District |accessdate=2008-02-06|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = April 19, 1994cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=94001186

Lukens Historic District is a historic district in Pennsylvania. Its National Historic Landmark summary listing says:

This district is associated with Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854), who played a leading role in the 19th-century American iron industry, and her family legacy. The firm she owned and managed--Brandywine Ironworks (later Lukens Steel Company)--was one of the industry's major firms in the decades before the Civil War. She was the only woman in the antebellum period to head a heavy industry that had interstate and international interests. Lukens prefigures a pattern which would become more common in the late 19th and early 20th century, in which family business gave women entry to management or ownership of large concerns. Rebecca Lukens served as matriarch of this industrial dynasty; her family continued her commitment of fairness to workers, innovative technology, and personal interest in fine architecture.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/94001186.pdf National Historic Landmark Nomination: Lukens Historic District] |32 KB|date=October 29, 1993 |author=Jill S. Mesirow and Page Putnam Miller |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/94001186.pdf "Accompanying 20 photos"] |32 KB]

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