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World Furniture Co

World Furniture Co
World Furniture Co

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a.k.a. Globe-Bosse-World Furniture Factory #3

1800 W Maryland St, formerly 600 W Maryland St
Evansville, IN

Quick Timeline

1907 built
1910 Merges into Globe-Bosse-World Furniture
<1962 Bartel's Manufacturing Co

Location

Southeast corner of Maryland St and E&TH RR (Ninth Ave)
District: Independence
Latitude: 37.985447
Longitude: -87.591521
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Architecture


History

industrial vernacular World Furniture company was founded in 1907 by Albert Karges, John Boehne, Ben Bosse, Henry Bosse, Sr., Chas. Frisse, and Henry Karges. There are no dollar amounts available, but we would have to assume that each factory had similar capitalization as the Globe Furniture Company. formed from 3 companies in 1910 globe bosse world located west maryland just west of pigeon creek covered 30+ acres built on angle because e &th rr used to travel along west side of building


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See also

HistoricEvansville.com: Businesses / Commercial
HistoricEvansville.com: Independence district

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