Machine Shop

ID: 2728 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS ~ Creator: Jack Boucher ~ Date: 1976
This file appears in: Ben Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum
Machine Shop

In 1976 the National Park Service studied and recorded notable historic structures related to engineering and industry. This is one of the photos taken at that time showing the almost untouched condition of the factory four years after Joe Schroeder died.

This file appears in: Ben Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum

By Historic Madison, Inc.
Almost untouched since the day it closed in 1972, the Ben Schroeder Saddletree factory is the nation's last intact 19th century shop where craftsman built the inner workings of saddles. Sawdust from the last run of saddletrees and the internal…