Dent Hardware Company Factory Complex, also known as the D.W. Coombs Textile Machinery Company, is a historic

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. ...

complex located in Whitehall Township in

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Lehigh County (Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Lechaa Kaundi'') is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 374,557.

. It was built between 1894 and 1913, and consists of 11 contributing buildings. They are built of reinforced concrete. The company was the nation's leading producer of brass refrigerator hardware and one of the two largest producers of

cast iron Cast iron is a class of iron– carbon alloys with a carbon content more than 2%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloy constituents affect its color when fractured: white cast iron has carbide impur ...

toys in Pennsylvania. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1986.

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History of Dent Design & Hardware
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania