Eleven years of hindsight have only highlighted my fascination with squares. The Episcopal church of Saint Joseph-the-Carpenter was an opportunity to explore a favored period of architecture, the Gothic Revival of the mid-19th century. Incidentally, the Y&E loses from the fire amounted to $5,000. They sometimes stayed in a hotel in that neighborhood. Somehow I feel a story coming on. It’s tempting to imagine Anson and his dad James Tennant in Chicago on business or making arrangements for school and actually witnessing the fire. Third, they made library equipment and, as Jorge Luis Borges observed “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Fourth, aspiring architect Anson Tennant was eighteen or nineteen years old that year and on the cusp of moving to Chicago to attend the School of the Art Institute. Second, it involves a company whose products undoubtedly reached northwestern Iowa. First, it’s Chicago and for me that’s sufficient. Used the company’s full name as a search tool at and found the front page coverage the day following the fire in the Chicago Inter-Ocean of Wednesday, January 29th Yet another Chicago disaster interests me for several reasons. And found much about their home office and actual manufacturing site in Rochester, NY. Searched for business history on Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Plugged the visible portion of the name on the sign into and was taken to a Chicago business directory which gave the company’s full name and address (pre-1909, however, which is when the city reformed its street numbering system). Armed with only “N & ERBE MFG.ĬO” from the postcard, it’s surprising how easily I was able to piece together the story. Plenty of them show up on eBay, though I knew very little about the company (headquartered in Rochester, NY) until this card tweaked my curiosity. Chances are, if you’re over fifty, you once used one of their card catalogues. In this RPPC view taken while the fire still smoldered, you can see the shop front of Yawman & Erbe, who manufactured desks, file cabinets and other quality furniture for office and libraries. Located in the Loop on Wabash Avenue, the fire quickly rose through several floors and spread to adjacent buildings. And is located at 1099 Jay St., Rochester, NY 14611.įile this under “The way things work.” On the afternoon of Tuesday, January 29th, 1908, fire broke out in the boiler room of the Alfred Peats Co., manufacturer of exclusive wallpapers. The Registered Agent on file for this company is Yawman & Erbe Manufacturing Company, Inc. The company's filing status is listed as Active and its File Number is 98659. Is a New York Foreign Business Corporation filed on January 4, 1956. Yawman & Erbe Manufacturing Company, Inc.
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