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ROURA IRON WORKS INC.
Crain's Detroit Business, November, 1999 by Green, Leslie
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Roura Iron Works Inc. in Detroit is a family company that was responsible in the early 1900s for the construction of many Detroit landmarks. Company legend states that Roura made and erected the steel for the bridges along the Grand Trunk Rail Road line from Detroit to Pontiac and the Eton Street Train Station in Birmingham.
After studying mechanical engineering at Carnegie Technical Institute in Pennsylvania, Joseph Roura Jr. in 1915 founded Roura Iron as a structural steel company based in downtown Detroit. Roura also made steel boxes and similar products during the slow ...
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