Assembly Shop

ID: 2730 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS ~ Creator: Jack Boucher ~ Date: 1976
This file appears in: Ben Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum
Assembly Shop

In the assembly shop, Schroeder workers assembled the parts made in the woodworking shop to complete the saddletree. Up to 500,000 saddletrees were made by the Schroeders during 94 years in business and shipped to saddle makers throughout the western hemisphere.

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…