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About
- Name
- Curry Lumber & Pole Building Co.
- Retail
- Building Material / Garden Equipment and Supplies
- Trading names
- Curry Lumber D. C. Curry Lumber Company Wooster Planing Mill D. C. Curry & Company James Curry & Sons
- Services
- Lumber Yard
Facts
- Founded
- 1853
Wooster,Ohio
- Merged/Sold, Dissolved
- 2018
Related
Key Persons
- Founders
- Owners
- Wellington Curry
1867 - D. C. Curry
1864 - John R. Curry
1854
Location
- 331 W. Henry St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- 371 W. Henry St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
Quick Facts
- 1853 - Founded by James Curry in Wooster, Ohio
- 1864 - D. C. Curry joined the company
- 1867 - Fall, Father and three sons formed partnership and purchased the lumber yard and planing mill of Stibbs & Co
- 1874 - Partnership with James Curry (father) and three oldest sons (John R., D.C. and Welling) dissolved; Company named D. C. Curry & Company after son (North Street, Wooster)
- 1876 - February 4, Planing Mill destroyed by fire at 1:04 PM
- 1878 - May 10, Fire Planing Mill reported by Young's Brewery
- 1885 - January 29 Fire
- 1887 - April 13 Fire
- 1887 - Purchased machinery and leased building formerly occupied by James Curry & Sons (East Liberty Street, Wooster)
- 1889 - Rebuilt on their old site on North Street, Wooster
- 1901 - June 20, the D. C. Curry Lumber Company was incorporated in Ohio
- 1921 - Moved to W. Henry St., Wooster, Ohio
- 1930 - Wooster directory, Curry D. C. Lumber Co, The; William R. Curry, President and Treasurer; E. S. Curry, VP; L. M. Mann, Secretary - 371 W. Henry St., p. 98, 233.
- 1950 - Curry started building post-frame buildings (pole barns) out of round poles, and are still building post-frame buildings today
- 2012 - January, David Nally}} purchased the business. [1]
- 2018 - Current owner, David Nally announced that he is selling the business to Craig Cox, owner of Springhill Construction in Dundee and the building division will operate from Dundee, Ohio. The lumberyard will close. [2]
Newspaper articles
- July 01, 2012: "News owners at Curry Lumber retain old-time values" by Linda Hall, The Daily Record, p. 123.
- April 13, 2018: "Curry Lumber to close after 165 years" by Dan Starcher, The Daily Record, p. 123.
- April 13, 2018: "PHOTOS: Curry Lumber is sold and will close" by Dan Starcher, The Daily Record, p. 123.
- May 16, 1878: "Another Fire, D. C. Curry & Co.'s Planing Mill" by Unknown, Wooster Weekly Republican, p. 3 column 4.
External Links
- Curry Lumber is sold and will be closing YouTube video by the Daily Record.
- CURRY LUMBER LIQUIDATION AUCTION - 165 Year Old Hardware Store & Lumberyard Liquidation Friday June 15th, 4:30 PM – 2 Crews
- D.C. Curry Lumber Company - Celebrating 162 years of independent operation and expertise US Builders Review. Case Studies. by Jeanne Dudley and John Canoti. February 1, 2016.