Cast House

Cast House with attached Bridge House in background

NPS Photo, Kutner

The Cast House encloses the charcoal blast furnace. All of Hopewell's products were produced in this building. Work was done for 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, for an average of ten months at a time. The current Cast House is a reconstruction built by Amish carpenters at the direction of the National Park Service in 1964-65.