It’s a little sad to admit it, but in my own hometown our most interesting building is a big grain storage contraption. We do have a couple of water towers, as well. Oh to be in New York City – particularly Brooklyn – where entire buildings can be featured as architecturally pleasing.
From Brownstoner, here is information about the Knox Hat Factory,
Edward Knox died in 1916, and the Knox Company merged with Dunlap Hats in 1918, which would eventually merge with other companies that formed the Hat Corporation of America, second in size only to the John Stetson Company. Knox hats remained extremely popular well into the 20th century, due to superior products and very slick advertising. The factory was closed after World War II and by the 1980’s was a vandalized, abandoned mess. Fortunately, Alfred Thompson, a developer of affordable housing, who also rescued the nearby Studebaker Building on Bedford Avenue, was able to turn the abandoned factory into 52 units of subsidized housing in the mid 1980’s.
I’ll bet we can find mice in our grain storage building.
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