Steinway Pianos
Long Island City, New York
The
American company Steinway and Sons was founded by an immigrant Heinrich
Englehard Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in
1853 in New York City. The Company sold its first piano for $500.Originally they produced one piano a week. By 1860, the company employed 350 men and was producing 30 pianos per week.In 1870 Steinway built its own company town in Queens, New York. Steinway Village had its own post office, church and employee housing. The company also opened an amusement park and beer garden for recreation. Unfortunately it did not survive prohibition.
Steinway was awarded gold medals at the 1867 Paris Exhibition for excellence in manufacturing and engineering. A second manufacturing facility was opened in Hamburg, Germany.
Improbably, Henry Steinway was 53 when he immigrated with his family to America.
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