Ball and Roller Bearing Company
Ball and Roller Bearing Company | |
Location | 20-22 Maple Avenue, Danbury, Connecticut |
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Coordinates | 41°23′54″N 73°27′8″W / 41.39833°N 73.45222°WCoordinates: 41°23′54″N 73°27′8″W / 41.39833°N 73.45222°W |
Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
Built | 1917 |
Architectural style | Queen Anne |
NRHP reference # | 89001087[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 25, 1989 |
The Ball and Roller Bearing Company, also known as American Family Crafts and the Joseph Nutt House and Machine Shop, is a historic industrial complex at 20-22 Maple Avenue in Danbury, Connecticut. The complex includes three buildings, two of which are wood frame and one which is brick. The two wood frame buildings include the Queen Anne-style former home of Joseph Nutt, who established a machine shop providing services to Danbury's hat making industry in 1886. Nutt's home also served as his company's office, and is attached to a single-story monitor-roofed brick structure. The factory is most notable as the location where Lewis Heim, owner of the Ball and Roller Bearing Company, invented the modern centerless grinding machine in 1917.[2]
The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1989.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ William E. Devlin (February 1, 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Ball and Roller Bearing Company / American Family Crafts / Joseph Nutt House and Machine Shop". National Park Service. and Accompanying 9 photos, exterior and interior, from 1984 and 1988
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