The Bost Building
The Bost Building, also known as the Columbia Hotel, is located on East Eighth Avenue in Homestead, Pennsylvania, southeast of downtown Pittsburgh and directly across the river from the city limit line. Built in 1892, it is the only significant building associated with the infamous 1892 Homestead Strike that remains in tact. An important event for labor relations in the United States, the strike was precipitated when the Homestead Steel Works company locked out its workers. The union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, used the building as its headquarters. American and British reporters also used the building to cover the conflict, wiring dispatches from a telegraph office on the first floor. After violent confrontations that resulted in 16 deaths, the strike was broken. Today, the Bost Building is a National Historic Landmark. It is a museum devoted to both the strike and the steel industry in and around Pittsburgh.
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