The Locust Street works was the second location of lamp manufacturing in the city of St.Louis. In 1902 it was opened by the National Electric Lamp Company to take over the production of the nearby Columbia Incandescent Lamp Company on Olive Street, which had been taken over in 1901. The new building was designed by architect Samuel L. Sherer, and consists of a three storey block in red brick. A few years later in 1907 the company acquired another slightly smaller premises at 3327-3329 Locust Street. It is not known if that was also a manufacturing site, or perhaps served as a warehouse or commercial offices. In 1911 National was fully absorbed into General Electric, which once again moved production to the still larger Etzel Street Works, where lampmaking was to remain for a further 96 years until 2007.
The Second factory of the Columbia Incandescent Lamp Company, viewed in 2019 5
Address
National Electric Lamp Co., 2115-2117-2119 Locust Street, St.Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Location
38.63365°N, -90.21005°E
Opened
1902.
Closed
1911.
Products
Incandescent lamps.
References & Bibliography
The Incandescent Electric Lamp 1880-1925, E.J. Covington, NELA Press, 1998 p.33.
National Register of Historic Places, US Department of the Interior, St.Louis Olive & Locust Business District, Section 7 p.4, 19th September 2007.
National Register of Historic Places, US Department of the Interior, St.Louis Olive & Locust Business District, Section 8 p.16, 19th September 2007.
The Second factory of the Columbia Incandescent Lamp Company, viewed in 2019 5