The Berry Brothers Bolt Works is a former factory in

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. For more than a century after its 1888 construction, the factory produced machine tools using original equipment. The structure itself is one of Columbus' most prominent factory buildings, and it was named a

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in its centennial year. Berry Brothers is a brick building with an

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roof, set on a

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. Numerous windows, many set in pairs, cover the three-

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facade of the main and secondary sections of the building. The building is typical of period factories, due to major components such as the brick walls and

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d roof, and also because of smaller elements such as the wooden windows with numerous small panes of glass, a four-story tower with staircase, and

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.Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 419. Near the end of the nineteenth century, Columbus possessed numerous factories that built buggies and various

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s, and the Berry Brothers constructed their manufacturing plant in 1888 for the sole purpose of producing bolts for these factories. A competing firm, built at the same time, went out of business before Berry Brothers. Their business, on the other hand, prospered; the building was greatly expanded in 1900, and a second large addition was erected ten years later. As buggies were replaced by cars, Berry Brothers continued in operation, using its 1880s equipment into the 1980s. No longer a factory, the company's building was purchased in 2000 with the goal of renovation, although financial problems delayed the start of work until 2004.Ball, Brian R.
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'', 2004-11-29. Accessed 2014-02-20. In early 1988, the bolt factory was listed on the

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, qualifying on three of the Register's four listing criteria: because of its architecture, because of its place in local history, and because of its potential to be an

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. The only criterion under which it did not qualify was that of association with a prominent individual.

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