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Identifier: cambridgeofeight00gilm (find matches)
Title: The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909
Subjects: Cambridge (Mass.) Cambridge (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Cambridge, Riverside press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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n assumed the con-trol of the business, retaining Mr. Geldowsky as manager. Theythen occupied the immense plant bounded by First, Second, Otis, andThorndike streets. January, 1884, Messrs. Keeler & Co. opened theirlarge retail warerooms at Nos. 81 to 91 Washington Street, leavingMr. Geldowsky in charge of the manufacturing business. In 1888Messrs. Keeler & Co. again took control of the factory, Mr. Geldow-sky continuing in their employ until his death in July, 1890. Duringthe past ten years they have made a feature of fine cabinet work, andhave completed order work from special designs for many publicbuildings, ambng which are the City Hall, Fall River; State HouseExtension, Boston ; City Hall, Cambridge ; Norfolk County CourtHouse, Dedbam ; and Middlesex County buildings, East Cambridge ;a number of banks, offices, libraries, and armories. The present firm of Keeler & Co. is composed of Alvin F. Sortwell,of this city, special partner, and Ruel P. Buzzell, general partner.
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FINE FURNITURE. 365 W. C. H. BADGER & CO. W. C. H. Badger & Co., furniture manufacturers, are located in alarge brick building on Albany Street, near Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridgeport. The members of the firm are W. C. H. Badger andGeorge F. Tyler, who are the successors to a business established morethan fifty years. The factory is two hundred by fifty feet, and fivestories high, and is complete in every department for the manufactureof furniture, having a 150 horse-power engine, latest improved dryingapparatus, and storehouses for lumber with capacity for one hundredand fifty thousand feet. The firm manufacture only the fine grades of furniture, using prin-cipally mahogany and quartered oak, and when in full operation em-ploy about one hundred and twenty-five men. They have a large tradeall through New England. A. B. & E. L. SHAW. A. B. & E. L. Shaw, East Cambridge, are makers of parlor, church,and lodge furniture. The business was established in 1780 by JacobFoster

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