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Herschell Carousel Factory Museum is a historic carousel factory building located at North Tonawanda in Niagara County, New York. The factory complex was constructed between about 1910 and 1915 and consists of six primary structures and five contributory additions.
The Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum, at the original factory site on Thompson Street, opened to the general public in July 1983, [8] with a full operational carousel from 1916. The first floor of the factory has been opened up to provide exhibits and demonstrations.
Herschel-Spillman Two-Row Portable Menagerie Carousel 1913 42°11′17″N 93°35′16″W / 42.18806°N 93.58778°W / 42.18806; -93.58778 ( Story City
It was the birthplace of the Herschell-Spillman Company/Allan Herschell Co., one of the leading manufacturers of carousels in America and is now the home of the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum. [2] [3] In 1888, Herschell attracted expatriate Belgian Eugene de Kleist to North Tonawanda, who started the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory to ...
Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum: 1916: Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum, North Tonawanda, NY Herschell-Spillman: Features two working carousels: The largest is a 1916 model that is 40 feet (12.2 m) in diameter, with 36 hand-carved horses and over 580 lights. The second is a small aluminum carousel specifically designed for children.
This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The museum’s history starts in 1998, when Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani opened a building to the public on his farm some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Qatari capital Doha.
The Spillman Engineering 3-Abreast Carousel was a carousel built in 1920 by the Allan Herschell Company. The carousel was in the Eastridge shopping Center, San Jose, California . It featured 30 hand-carved jumping wooden horses and two hand-carved chariots which serve as benches.