Rudolph Wurlitzer Plant - North Tonawanda, NY
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N 43° 03.643 W 078° 50.541
17T E 675696 N 4769816
The Wurlitzer Company manufactured organs and jukeboxes and this plant in North Tonawanda was the company's largest.
Waymark Code: WM1VTR
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/16/2007
Views: 83
The following is an excerpt from
New York: A Guide to the Empire State in Tour 37 (US route 62):
The RUDOLPH WURLITZER PLANT, 900-block Niagara Falls Blvd., makes theater and church organs, radio cabinets, mechanical planes, and coin-operated phonographs. The firm was founded in 1856 at Cincinnati by Rudolph Wurlitzer, a young German, whose ancestors had been organ makers in Saxony for centuries. The North Tonawanda plant was opened in 1908.
This Wurlitzer plant continued to make organs, pianos, and jukeboxes well into the mid to late 1900s. They also made bomb fuses for the U.S. military during World War II. Unfortunately no information could be found on when this particular plant closed. It was vacant for several years before a developer bought it. About 20 different businesses now occupy the majority of the buildings.