Cornell History

1800-1856  1862-1886  1897-Early 1900's  1906-1926  1929-1952  1965-2003

 

1897

J.B. & J.M. purchase West Point Foundry and Machine Shops situated at Cold Spring, on the Hudson River in New York State. The Foundry made iron and steel for buildings, castings and machinery as well as ordinance. The combined companies had capacity to provide 200 tons of castings per day.

 

1898

Cornell provides 8,000 tons of structural steel work for Park Row Building in New York City. At the time, this building was the tallest building in the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1898

The bronze gate is counterbalanced, traveling up and down securing the Exchange Court Building in New York City.

 

 

 

Early 1900's

The firm liquidates its heavy production shops as steel and pg iron production move west. The firm began to reduce its production of heavy iron for structural uses and focused on the rolling door business, as an advertisement of the day illustrates.