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The Shirt Factory, Glens Falls, New York. 19,461 likes · 1,608 talking about this · 8,463 were here. View Our Pinned Post For Hours Information.
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71 Lawrence St. Glens Falls, NY 12801. Get directions. Amenities and More. Walk-ins Welcome. Wheelchair Accessible. Accepts Credit Cards. Accepts Android Pay. 5 More Attributes. About the Business. E. U. Business Owner. This is your one stop location for local art, specialty products and one of a kind gifts that make you shine!
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The Shirt Factory. 44 reviews. #4 of 15 things to do in Glens Falls. Art Galleries. Write a review. About. The Shirt Factory was built in 1902 for the McMullen-Leavens Company as a shirt factory, the building was expanded in 1910 as production increased. In the 1930's the product line expanded into dress manufacturing.
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- The Birth of The Shirt Factory
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Before The Shirt Factory there was a different shirt factory in Glens Falls called the Joseph Fowler Shirt and Collar Company. In the 1890s brothers Joseph and Charles Fowler operated this shirt company on Glen Street. Two Glens Falls locals, James Robert “J.R.” McMullen and Walter Leavens, joined the company as clerks in 1891 and learned about the...
Photo: Chapman Historical Museum At the time of the fire, Joseph Fowler had passed away, Charles Fowler was President, JR McMullen Vice President, and Walter Leavens was Secretary. McMullen had been representing the company’s New York City division and was optimistic about rebuilding. McMullen made an agreement with Fowler that he and Leavens would...
Photo: Chapman Historical Museum McMullen and Leavens soon purchased the property from Mary Ann O’Leary, and then they hired architect Ephraim Potter. While the McMullen-Leavens Shirt Company operated out of the third floor of the Robertson Building on Maple Street, Potter started to create the new building. Potter designed the factory as two conne...
Dressmaking was becoming popular around the mid-1930s and in 1936 McMullen decided to jump on the bandwagon. He hired Dorothy Cox as the company’s lead designer for dresses. Over 800 women worked for the factory at this time - half out of their homes, and the other half using industrial sewing machines on an assembly line in the factory. In 1939 Mc...
McMullen passed away unexpectedly and without a will in 1946, putting the company in an uncertain position. Staff had no clear direction, unnecessary materials were ordered, and there were financial complications. More than two years later the estate was settled. One group of heirs took over shirtmaking, and the other dressmaking (still at the same...
Ownership of the shirt factory changed many times after McMullen’s heirs were forced to sell the building. Nathan Sheinman purchased it in 1956 and he made a number of changes to the business, including moving the company headquarters to New York City. The building was sold again in 1976 and dress production was moved overseas. In 1992, the Troy Sh...
Photo: The Shirt Factory After attending an auction at the building in 1996 that sold off much of the shirtmaking and dressmaking equipment, current owner Eric Unkauf began to work to preserve the property. He officially purchased the building in 1999. The first year saw about 20 tenants. Today, nearly 100 creative individuals work out of The Shirt...
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