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The Armstrong Cork Company (formerly of Armstrong World Industries) was a cork manufacturer which was located at 2349 Railroad Street in the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Armstrong Cork Company eventually moved its headquarters to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The property was operated as a cork factory dating to 1865 and was acquired in the late 19th century by Armstrong Cork Co., later renamed Armstrong World Industries. [1] In 1929, Armstrong consolidated its cork operations at the site, making Lancaster "the 'cork capital' of the world". [ 2 ]
In 1952, Henning W. Prentis of Armstrong Cork Company and industrialists such as Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, Frank W. Abrams of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Henry Ford II of Ford Motor Company formed the Council for Financial Aid to Education, which increased corporate gifts to colleges from $24 million annually to $136 ...
Armstrong Flooring is a Pennsylvania corporation incorporated in 2016. It was spun off as an independent entity from Armstrong World Industries in April 2016. The company manufactures flooring products in the US in Beech Creek, Pennsylvania; Jackson, Mississippi; Kankakee, Illinois; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; South Gate, California; and Stillwater, Oklahoma; and internationally in Shanghai ...
Conestoga Cork Works Building, also known as E. Rosenwald & Co. Tobacco Warehouse, Rose Bros. & Co., Farmers Supply, and Rosenwald Court Apartments, is a historic factory and tobacco warehouse located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built between about 1883 and 1897, and is a three-story, 31 bay brick building with a hipped ...
Conestoga Cork Works Building: March 28, 1996 : 215-235 East Fulton Street Musser Park ... Lancaster Trust Company: November 3, 1983 : 37-41 North Market Street
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Designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban and built between 1910 and 1911, this historic building is a four- to five-story, L-shaped, steel-frame structure that is clad in brick, pink granite, Indiana limestone, and copper.