Ives Manufacturing Corporation, 194 Holland Avenue, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT

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Significance: The patent-stone ashlar building was the first factory in the United States built for the sole purpose of making toy trains. Ives was the largest producer of electric trains in this country for almost ten years, manufacturing the first "O" gauge trains in America to run on fabricated sectional track. The company had a reputation for high standards, living up to the slogan "Ives Toys Make Happy Boys."

Survey number: HAER CT-170

Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1917 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1939 Subsequent Work

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1969 - 1980

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Ives, Edward

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Cobbs, Martha M, historian

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