Snead Manufacturing Building | |
 Louisville Glassworks in 2007 | |
| Location | Louisville, KY |
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| Coordinates | 38°15′22.41″N85°45′51.78″W / 38.2562250°N 85.7643833°W |
| Built | 1910 |
| Architect | D.X. Murphy & Brothers |
| NRHP reference No. | 78001367 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 1, 1978 |
The Snead Building located at 815 W. Market St. is a multi-use facility housing two working glass studios (two glass galleries): a Walk-In Workshop and tours by appointment.
From 1850 to 1901, at least seven different glass manufacturing factories operated in Louisville. Six were utilitarian bottle houses, and the other manufactured window and plate glass. In 1850 the first glass bottle and jar-making firm, known as the Kentucky Glass Works was formed, which, by 1855, was being referred to under the name "Louisville Glass Works". ("Louisville KY Glass Works" is the actual wording on some of their embossed whiskey flasks of the 1850s and 1860s era). That bottle making firm was located on the southeast corner of Franklin and Clay Streets. However, that firm was defunct by 1873, and bears no relationship to the much later glassmaking business that operated in the old Sneath building under the name "Louisville Glassworks".
In 1896 Edwin Penna began operation, and has gone under five generations of Penna ownership. [2]
The downtown location has historically been known as the Snead Manufacturing Building, and was put on the National Register in 1978. Snead was responsible for building many iron buildings around the country. After the old building burnt down, the architect was told to build a "first-class fireproof power building". [3]
The Louisville Glassworks business closed its doors in 2012, but glass continues there today.
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