The Iron to Arts Corridor is an expansive project that encompasses infrastructure improvements,
landscape architecture, streetscape beautification, facade enhancements, health and safety
improvements, and trail connectivity through 25% of the wards of the City of Johnstown. It connects
our history to the modern renaissance of art in the Johnstown community.
The Iron & The Arts
Johnstown’s history is rich with industrial development. The Cambria Iron Company of Johnstown made
an important contribution to American industrialism – it is considered one of the greatest of the early
modern iron and steel works. Forerunner of Bethlehem Steel Company, United States Steel Corporation,
and other late 19th and 20th century steel companies, the Cambria plant became a model for the
industry. Our city holds a well-earned place in steelmaking history with several major technological
innovations that were copied throughout the nation and the world.
The Arts celebrate and contribute to personal and community health and well-being. Participating in the
arts allows a person to exercise his or her imagination and develop creative capacities. Physical
expressions of creativity from photography and painting, to sculpture and drawing, to music and fashion
expand the human brain and its capacity to be creative and open. The Johnstown community is ripe
with opportunity to participate and consume the arts in multiple capacities. Enlightenment through the
arts breathes life into a community and fosters a creative culture.
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