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Stephens, Armstrong & Conkling, Architectural Terra Cotta Works
| Name | Stephens, Armstrong & Conkling, Architectural Terra Cotta Works |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | 46th Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | keramische Fabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: 46th Street und Girard Avenue. Herstellung von Terracotta für Gebäude. Um 1895 unter der Firma "Stephens & Co." (s.d.). |
| Quellenangaben | [Hexamer General Surveys, Plate 2759-2760 (1894)] [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 126] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| um 1869 |
Errichtung von Gebäuden (mit Kesselhaus) im östlichen Werksteil |
| 1890 |
Errichtung der Gebäude an der östlichen Gebäudegrenze |
| 1893 |
Bau des zweiten Ofen- und Pressenhauses im Nordwesten |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Terracotta |
1894 |
[Hexamer] |
1894 |
[Hexamer] |
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| Zeit |
Objekt |
Anz. |
Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
[...] |
Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1894 |
Dampfkessel |
2 |
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unbekannt |
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| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1894 |
100 |
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100 - 125 Arbeiter |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| Zeit |
Bezug |
Abfolge |
andere Firma |
Kommentar |
| 1895 |
Umbenennung |
danach |
Stephens & Co. |
um 1895 |
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The City of Philadelphia has erected within its limits during the last quarter of a century, some of the finest public buildings, stores and residences that can be found anywhere in the United States, and is rapidly going ahead in improvements in architectural terra cotta used in the display of its better class of edifices. We introduce to our readers the firm of Stephens, Armstrong & Conkling, manufacturers of Architectural Terra Cotta. The firm is
composed of George F. Stephens, Henry G. Stephens, Thomas F. Armstrong and Ira L. Conkling. Their trade is local, suburban and all over the United States, ever enlarging, popular with the general public and deservedly increasing in volume and importance, the manufacture of which is truly an art, requiring originality of conception, technical training, patient endeavor, assiduous and intelligent application, and the very acme of expert workmanship to secure an artistic totality of admirable and enduring qualities - there not being more than about six successful manufacturers of Architectural Terra Cotta in the United States. The factory of the firm is located at Forty-sixth street and Girard avenue, fronting on the Pennsylvania Railroad track, a large brick building 100x150 feet at which place about 100 hands are employed. They also have a branch office at No. 176 Broadway, New York. The goods manufactured by this firm are exclusively from architectural designs, specimens of which can be seen in the following buildings: Drexel Institute, Thirty-second and Chestnut streets; University of Pennsylvania, Thirty-fourth and Locust streets; Hotel Waldorf, Thirty-third street and Fifth avenue, New York, for W. W. Astor; Forrest Hotel, Lakewood, N.J.; Department house belonging to Levi P. Morton, Fourteenth and H streets, Washington, D.C.; Granville B. Haines building, Ninth and Market streets; Provident Life Insurance Company building. Fourth and Walnut streets; Col. A. K. McClurc, Nineteenth and Spruce streets; Polyclinic Hospital, Nineteenth and Lombard streets; Baldwin Locomotive Works, Italian Chapel, Bingham House, Warner Building, Camden National Bank, and many others too numerous to mention. Messrs. Geo. F. Stephens and Henry G. Stephens are members of the Art Club, the former also belongs to the Society of American Artists in this city. All the members of the firm are well known to the leading architects of the city, and stand very high in the estimation of those with whom thev have business relations. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 126] |
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