Who has the oldest shop?

[CanuckSigns]

I always new the building our shop is in was old, but I never realized how old and historic it was untill I did a bit of research. Turns out the building was built in 1830 and used as a woodworking and machine shop.

Through my research I found out that the wooden box that housed the first telephone was built down the hall.

heres an interesting article in case anyone is interested https://raisethehammer.org/article/2167/location_location_location:_valley_city_in_dundas_is_back

anyone have any old shops that are rich with history?

 

[Z SIGNS]

Cool article

I love old buildings.

My last shop was an old late 1800's foundry.

Our new place we got in 2011 was a print shop 1895 until 1960
It was an abandoned ,condemned building that we bought and rehabbed into a functioning sign shop.

Some pic's of the old shop and the new

Front of my previous location 1 block away

 

[CanuckSigns]

Yeah it's a really cool old building, there is a very old wood burning steam boiler upstairs that was used to heat the building for the last 140 years, they used to heat the place for free with the scraps from the woodworking shop. The boiler is the size of a small house, 100% cast iron.

the building sits on the edge of a creek and you can see where they diverted the creek to flow through the building in order to turn various water wheels to power the machines.

 

[Bretbyron]

1893! Building has been in the family since the 60's.