Richmond Store

ID: 3071 ~ Creator: Ed F. and Walter L. Dalbey ~ Date: Circa 1896

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1896 photo of the Richmond Starr Piano storefront located between 10th and Main streets. Henry Gennett is on the left with his eldest son Harry to the right. By 1915, Starr Piano stores had been established in major cities throughout Ohio and Indiana as well as Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and San Diego and Los Angeles, California.

This file appears in: The Starr Piano Company

The Starr Piano Company

By Sue King, Morrisson-Reeves Library & Ariana Cieslak

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…