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The Hamilton-Brown Shoe Factory was the first large scale industrial operation in
Columbia, Missouri Columbia is a city in Missouri, United States. It was founded in 1821 as the county seat of Boone County, Missouri, Boone County and had a population of 126,254 as recorded in the 2020 United States census, making it the List of cities in Misso ...
. It was built in 1906-1907 by the
Brown Shoe Company Caleres Inc. is an American footwear company that owns and operates a variety of footwear brands. Its headquarters is located in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.St. Louis St. Louis ( , sometimes referred to as St. Louis City, Saint Louis or STL) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a populatio ...
and was operational from 1907-1939Hamilton-Brown Shoe Factory - Columbia, Missouri - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com
/ref> The building today has been converted into offices. The company was a large manufacturer of men's, women's and children's shoes. In 1888, the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company built a factory at the northeast corner of 21st and Locust in a fading upper-class residential neighborhood in St. Louis. Already a force in St. Louis industry, the company doubled its sales between 1890 and 1900. By the early 20th century, Hamilton-Brown with six manufacturing facilities claimed world leadership in boots and shoes. At one time, the company was the largest shoe manufacturer in the world. Their product line brand included the "American Gentleman" and "American Lady". It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2002.


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Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company Building Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company Building, now the Selwyn Place Apartments, is a historic factory building located at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built in 1919 by the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, and is a four-story, rectangular brick ...
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Brown Shoe Company Factory The Brown Shoe Company Factory is a historic factory located at 212 S. State St. in Litchfield, Illinois. The factory opened in 1917 to produce shoes for the St. Louis–based Brown Shoe Company. Prominent St. Louis architect Albert B. Groves de ...
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Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory Brown Shoe Company's Homes-Take Factory, also known as the International Hat Company Warehouse, is a historic building location at 1201 Russell Boulevard in the Soulard, St. Louis, Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1904, by re ...


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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Industrial buildings completed in 1907 Buildings and structures in Columbia, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Boone County, Missouri Shoe factories Office buildings in Columbia, Missouri Caleres 1907 establishments in Missouri {{BooneCountyMO-NRHP-stub