The C. E. Lipe Machine Shop was established in
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, Onondaga County, New York, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffa ...
in 1880 in the Lynch Building by Charles E. Lipe (1850–1895),
a mechanical engineer. The building became an early industrial incubator
and was commonly known as the ''Lipe Shop''. While Lipe worked on his own ideas, he rented out facilities to others.
Some of the leaders in industry worked both independently and side by side in this building to solve the industrial problems of their era. "These men sowed the germs that sprouted into major business enterprises in Syracuse and elsewhere" and for many years the machine shop was known as the "cradle of Syracuse industries."
The building is still in use today as a hardware store.
External links
Industrial Age Fed Syracuse Boom, Tim Knauss, Syracuse Then and Now, 2010Central Upstate's History of Innovation & Creativity - New York's Creative Core, 2010Rollway Bearing History, 2011Lipe Machine Shop - Wikimapia, 2011
References
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Defunct companies based in Syracuse, New York