Abandoned Factory
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A photograph of one of the Starr Piano Factory buildings in the 1960s or 1970s, when the complex had fallen into disrepair. Many of the buildings were torn down in the 1980s. One remaining building has been revitalized to commemorate Gennett Record's legacy.
This file appears in: The Starr Piano Company
The Starr Piano Company
By the 1870s, more business flowed toward Richmond, Indiana. In 1872, George Trayser, a renowned piano maker from Germany who had previously maintained factories in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, and had been awarded several U.S. patents for his…