MADE
IN HAMILTON
19TH CENTURY
INDUSTRIAL TRAIL
SITE
28
HARPER-PRESNAIL
CIGAR COMPANY, 1913
What
could go better with a mug of Grant's ale than a fine cigar? Just beyond Central
Park you can still see the handsome four-storey brick factory built in 1913
to house the Harper-Presnail Cigar Company. William Harper and William and Thomas
Presnail had worked at the giant Tuckett's Tobacco factory near the corner of
Queen and York Streets before setting out on their own.
The
Felton Brush Company is the building's present occupant. This Manchester, New
Hampshire-based company moved here in 1946 to produce industrial brushes.
Architect Lindsey Wardell's design for this building incorporates a number of notable architectural features, including a heavily rusticated base, an applied cornice at the roofline, some brickwork details and brick pilasters between groups of three windows.
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