In 1959, Bill Smith was an apprentice learning how to build the wooden patterns that foundries use to crank out everything from cast-iron cornbread skillets to the steel wheels on U.S. Army tanks.

ANACONDA — Before it was metal, it was wood. A new exhibit at the Copper Village Museum and Arts Center in Anaconda features more than 120 old wooden patterns that were used to create the molds for ...

It's curtains for the historic Stedman Foundry pattern house near Spring Meadow Lake. Although a 2005 Environmental Assessment recommended tearing down the three-story structure because of its ...

BELOIT — Nohr LLC, a provider of foundry patterns and prototype castings based in Beloit, has acquired Westwick Foundry in Galena, Illinois, a gray and ductile iron foundry. Effective immediately, ...

Curator David Webb shows off wooden patterns of gears Tuesday that are on display at Copper Village Museum and Arts Center, 401 E. Commercial St., Anaconda. It’s part of an exhibit that features ...