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From: Norma Adams <>
Subject: Re: [OHBUTLER-L] McSherry
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:14:40 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4215321B.9466695F@trimmer.net>


At 07:08 PM 2/17/2005 -0500, Ann Trimmer wrote:
>On the July 1895 Sanborn Insurance Map, McSherry is on page 12.
>
>says
>The McSherry M'f'g Co Agricultural Inplements
>They had a night and Sunday watchman
>Clock-7 Stations
>Hyd's 8 hose as shown
>Heat Hot Air-Sturtevant System
>fuel Coal
>lights Incand. Elec
>Smith-Vail Duplex Pump in Eng Rm
>Conn'd with well & City water
>The building was an L shaped affair
>Shipping Rm and Off on 1st floor
>Erecting on 2nd
>Storage on 3rd
>also on first was Wood working
>A machine shop, paint shop on 2nd, Bicycle manf. on 3rd
>Smith shop
>Grinding Cleaning Castings
>Foundry
>Sand Shed
>10" high Lumber pile
>Bake Oven
>
>While it was bordered on one side by Grand Ave and the other by an RR, I
>don't see where on Grand Ave this was.

Since it had a bicycle manf. shop on the 3rd floor, it probably was the old
Lamneck building that went out in a blaze of glory about 20 years
ago. What a fire that was. It was a huge building. It was on Grand,
at the railroad track on the west side of what is now University.


Norma

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