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The Iroquois Door Company operated from 1904 until 1989. It was founded as a branch of the Cream City Sash & Door Company of Milwaukee. Cream City originally planned to expand its operations to the east by opening warehouses in Cleveland and Buffalo, but when the company realized that Buffalo had better access to a variety of transportation routes, Cream City decided to only open a warehouse in Buffalo (Buffalo Commercial, 3/10/1904). Iroquois built a three-story plant at the intersection of Exchange and Larkin Streets and the Erie Railroad in 1904.
Image of the Iroquois plant in Buffalo.
Image of the original Iroquois logo.
The company expanded in 1920 when it opened a new plant in Albany, New York. The latter plant took the name the Iroquois Millwork Company. In 1924, the Buffalo plant burned, losing 15,000 doors and 30 railroad cars full of glass (Buffalo Commercial, 1/21/1924). The plant was rebuilt the following year. In the 1930s, Iroquois began to carry Morgan's doors rather than producing its own. Its surviving millwork catalogs mostly date to the period 1930 to 1955 during the period in which it carried Morgan doors. In 1959, Iroquois changed the way it provided catalogs; it sent a binder to its distributors with inserts that could be removed and replaced over time. The company was rebranded as "Iroquois Industries" in 1982, which closed its doors in 1989.
Millwork catalogs at archive.org:
1915,
1951
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