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The former High Point Bending and Chair Company, also known as Boling Chair Company and Boling Company, is a historic factory complex located at Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina. The complex includes the original 1908 factory building, along with brick factory buildings built about 1920 and 1948.
The 1920s saw the company move into installing seating in movie palaces. [9] Its furniture was exhibited at the 1933 Century of Progress exhibition and at the 1964 New York World's Fair. [10] During the 1930s and 1940s Heywood-Wakefield began producing furniture using sleek designs based on French Art Deco. [11]
While production of Puritan phonographs ceased between 1922-1923, the Puritan record label lasted until the late 1920s. The Great Depression ultimately ended all phonograph and record production for the Wisconsin Chair Company. [4] Post-Depression. After Bostwick's death in 1935, Wisconsin Chair was run by Otto Moeser, a company trustee. [5]
The Engle Furniture Company became the Reaser Furniture Company of Clayton S. Reaser in May 1907, [6] producing more than forty styles in addition to hand-carved pieces. In May 1917, the joint venture Stouck-Reaser Company [ 7 ] filed documents for incorporation to buy, sell and deal in wholesale lumber products. [ 8 ]
The Schell Leather Company (Schell Leather Goods or Schell Leather Goods Company or Schell Inc. [1]) is a manufacturer of leather (originally), plastic, vinyl, nylon, and synthetic material [1] goods originally based in Cincinnati, Ohio founded by Albert and Charles J. Schell [2] [3] from 1865 or 1870 [1] (or at least 1901 [4] or 1925 [5]) to at least 1985.
The company was founded as a housewares manufacturer in 1932 by Theodore Baumritter and his brother-in-law Nathan S. Ancell. They bought a bankrupt furniture factory in Beecher Falls, Vermont in 1936 and adopted the name "Ethan Allen" for its early-American furniture introduced in 1939, after the Vermont Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.
While reaching an early success in 1886, a local businessman invested funds to expand White Furniture and purchase more advanced machinery. Within a brief time, the company employed 32 people and manufactured tables, chairs, and a bedroom set. The solid-oak bedroom set sold for nine dollars and included a bed, dresser, and washstand.
Antique furniture may support the human body (such as seating or beds), provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture (which often makes use of doors, drawers, and shelves) is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods. [ 3 ]