I had known about this building on Park and Franklin Avenues in Clinton Hill marked with the name “Stimpson” for some time. A recent walk by there again led me to investigate what “Stimpson” is all about. I discovered that Stimpson, originally the Edwin B. Stimpson Co. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of small metallic devices such as grommets (the small rings used to protect designed holes in fabrics), washers, eyelets and snaps. The company was founded in 1852 in lower Manhattan at Park Row and Spruce Street, where Pace University is now. At some point (I don’t know when) it opened this office in Brooklyn–it doesn’t show up on the 1929 Belcher Hyde desk atlas, so it was after that — and in 1971 moved to a new facility in Bayport. Its current HQ is in Pompano Beach, Florida, where it opened a factory in 1961.
The main Edwin B. Stimpson identifying sign on the Park Avenue side was cut in half in 2017 when The Fixture Gallery, a bathroom fixture retailer, opened a new storefront.
An Art-Deco style entrance on the Franklin Avenue side displays the company name.
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6/25/22