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General Cigar Company–Ansco Camera Factory Building

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Architect
  
Freeman, Alfred

Area
  
1 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
12000532

Added to NRHP
  
22 August 2012

General Cigar Company–Ansco Camera Factory Building

Location
  
16 Emma St., Binghamton, New York

Built
  
1927 (1927)-1928, 1938, 1950

Built by
  
Bowie-Clark Construction Co.

MPS
  
Industrial Resources of Broome County, New York

Similar
  
Barclays Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hotel Pennsylvania, Madison Square Garden, New York Botanical Garden

General Cigar Company–Ansco Camera Factory Building, also known as Agfa-Ansco, General Aniline and Film (GAF), and Anitec, is a historic factory complex located at Binghamton, Broome County, New York. It was originally built in 1927-1928 for the General Cigar Company; Ansco purchased the factory in 1937. The factory building is a four story brick building with basement, five bays wide and 20 bays long. It has an intersecting four-story wing and two-story addition constructed in 1950. The building measures approximately 62 feet wide and 402 feet long. The powerhouse is a one-story, steel frame and brick building measuring 36 feet wide and 52 feet long. The buildings housed manufacturing operations of Ansco for cameras and photographic equipment. The factory closed in 1977.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

References

General Cigar Company–Ansco Camera Factory Building Wikipedia