W. & L. E. Gurley Building
W. & L. E. Gurley Building | |
 View from southwest, 2008 | |
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| Location | Troy, NY |
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| Built | 1862 |
| Architect | Unknown |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 70000432 |
| Added to NRHP | March 05, 1970[1] |
The W. & L. E. Gurley Building, in Troy, New York, is a classical revival structure that housed the W. & L. E. Gurley Company, a maker of precision measuring instruments, from its construction in 1862.[3] The company, run by William Gurley and his brother, Lewis Ephraim, was a leader in the field, and published a regularly updated manual of instruments and their operations. The company was acquired by Teledyne Company in the 1960's,[4]and was sold again in 1993 and continues as Gurley Precision Instruments today.
The building was built in "an amazing feat of construction" in just 8 months to replace the previous building, which burned in the Great Troy Fire of 1862.[3] The company was then engaged in producing military products for the American Civil War, which included "brass fuse-plugs for naval projectiles and an improved type of brass trimming for saddle trees."[3]
The building is a four-story red brick building, U-shaped around a small courtyard. A foundry was at ground level on the north side of the courtyard.
The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1983.[2][3] The building is currently owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and houses its Lighting Research Center, which moved there in 2000,[5] and a few acoustics labs associated with the school of architecture. Gurley Percision Instruments still occupies the first floor of the building and the entire building directly across the street.
It is located on Fulton Street between 5th and Union Streets in Troy.
HAER photos
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References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
- ^ a b "W. & L.E. Gurley Building". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-23.
- ^ a b c d George R. Adams (November, 1977), Template:PDFlink, National Park Service
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) and Template:PDFlink - ^ "W. & L.E. Gurley Building HAER No. NY-13". Historic American Engineering Record. 1969. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
- ^ "Lighting Research Center: New Light For Historic Gurley Building". Rensselaer Magazine. 2000. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
External links
- Gurley Precision, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- W. & L.E. Gurley Building, 6 photos, at Historic American Buildings Survey
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