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The company was founded in New York City in 1938 by Hans Knoll. Production facilities were moved to Pennsylvania in 1950. Production facilities were moved to Pennsylvania in 1950. After the death of Hans in 1955, his wife, Florence Knoll , took over as head of the company.
New York City: all except Manhattan; overlays with 347, 917, and 929 838: 2017: Albany, Glens Falls, Plattsburgh, Saratoga Springs and northeastern New York; component of 518/838 overlay 845: 2000 Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; component of 845/329 overlay 914: 1947 Westchester County: 917: 1992
Area codes 518 and 838 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for eastern Upstate New York in the United States. 518 is one of the 86 original North American area codes created in 1947. Area code 838 was added to the 518 numbering plan area in 2017. The two area codes serve 24 counties and 1,200 ZIP Code areas in a ...
In 1951, the number of area codes grew to ninety: the State of New York gained area code 516 on Long Island, and Southern California received area code 714, to reduce the numbering plan area of Los Angeles. [23] Area code handbook issued by many telephone companies in 1962 to promote the newly introduced direct distance dialing.
Hans Knoll was born in Germany in 1914. His father was a modern furniture manufacturer, who supported the Nazi regime. [1] Perhaps because of his father's views, or perhaps because he wanted to follow many other German modernists who had emigrated, Knoll left Germany in 1936, and first moved to England. [1]
Herman Miller was founded in 1905 as the Star Furniture Co. [3] In 1919, it was renamed the Michigan Star Furniture Co. under then-president Dirk Jan De Pree. De Pree and his father-in-law, Herman Miller, (born Harm Mulder on 7 September 1867 in Hoogemeeden, Groningen, Netherlands) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] acquired most of the company's shares in 1923 and ...
Reflecting Albany's status as New York's capital, 17 of the 41 extant buildings listed individually, more than one-third of that total, have been used for governmental purposes at some point. [ note 7 ] The city government is responsible for three of those, its school district for two and the federal government one (the Old Post Office ), with ...
Albany Felt Company Complex: Albany Felt Company Complex: February 14, 2014 : 1373 Broadway: Menands: Early 20th-century factory complex with extensive landscaping 2: Albany Glassworks Site: July 22, 1980