This photo of the factory at the foot of Sixth Street was taken in the mid-1950s by Don Godown.
It was not the first factory on that site. In April of 1889 the Frenchtown Star reported that Slack & Holcombe would soon be moving their wheel-making operation into “the new factory” on Sixth Street.
In 1900 Wilbur Slack sold the place to the Crosby Manufacturing Co., which manufactured doll carriages and children's wagons there.
In 1912 the wooden factory burned down, and before the year ended work was underway on a fire-resistant brick factory to replace it on the same site. The Rogers family took it over in 1924, but property was repossessed in 1931.
Arthur Frischman arrived in 1934 and began upholstering his furniture there. In 1940 Edwin Kottler came to manufacture his lamps and also do some secret wartime production of something secret. Secret from me, anyway.
In 1947 or '48 Frederick A. Krause Associates moved in began stamped out decorative metal trays and cookie tins on into the 1980s.
In the '90s d
uring Blue Fish Clothing's boom time, the old factory was used to print designs onto cotton clothing.
Now, according to her website, the place contains the business office and warehouse for the products of Chatham artist Ling Chang. She paints lovely florals that adorn calendars, note cards, clocks, placemats and more.
Excerpt from "Rick's Frenchtown Encyclopedia"
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