Estey Organ Company Factory

  • Also Known As: Former Estey Organ Company Factory

  • Address: 34 Birge St
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

The former Estey Organ Company factory complex in Brattleboro, Vermont holds national significance both for its historical role in the United States organ industry and its unique architectural character. By the turn of the twentieth century, the family-owned Estey complex had expanded to become the largest organ factory in the world. The company economically dominated the community of Brattleboro and ranked among the largest industries of Vermont. Its owners and employees contributed numerous inventions in the techniques and components of organ building, and were prominent participants in the political and social affairs both of Brattleboro and Vermont. At its ultimate development, the Estey factory comprised nearly thirty buildings, among which a core of seven were given the unusual exterior sheathing of slate shingles. Those seven buildings remain intact and constitute an outstanding rhythmic uniform facade line along Birge Street, the public approach to the complex. This array of slate-sheathed buildings, of similar scale and massing, is unrivaled in the State. - NRHP


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1870/00/00 Estey Organ Company Owner 34 and 68 Birge St were owned by Estey Organ Co from 1870-1960
1870/00/00 Jacob Estey Owner Estey Organ factory Buildings are built - No 1 and 2 (1871), No 3, No 4, No 5 and No 6 (1870)

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Particulars for Estey Organ Company Factory:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Industry
Historic Use Manufacturing facility
Owner Private



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 17th April 1980

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Estey Organ Company Factory
Registry Address: Birge St.
Registry Number: 80000344
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 5
Contributing Buildings: 15
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Industry, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1850-1874, 1875-1899
Significant Year: 1870, 1907
Historic Function: Industry, processing, extraction
Historic Sub-Function: Manufacturing facility
Current Function: Commerce, Trade
Current Sub-Function:

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