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The J. L. Mott Iron Works was an American hardware dealer and manufacturer during the late 19th century. It operated in
The company relocated in about 1902 to Trenton, New Jersey.
In 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp may have selected a urinal from the J.L. Mott showroom in Manhattan and presented it as a work of art called '' Fountain'' at the Society of Independent Artists exhibition. This episode marks the introduction of the readymade in the history of modern art.
The Mott Iron Works companyMott Iron Works website
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Modern Plumbing - J. L. Mott Iron Works (1921)
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The J. L. Mott Iron Works was an American hardware dealer and manufacturer during the late 19th century. It operated in New York
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and was relocated to Trenton, New Jersey, where it ceased operations in the 1920s.
History
The J. L. Mott Iron Works was established byJordan L. Mott
Jordan Lawrence Mott (1799 — 1866) was an American inventor and industrialist. He established the J. L. Mott Iron Works in New York City.
His father was Jacob Mott, an alderman of New York in 1804-1810 and at one time acting mayor of the city, a ...
in New York City in the area now called Mott Haven in 1828. Mott was previously a grocer but he transitioned to iron works when he invented the first cast iron stoves that could burn anthracite
Anthracite, also known as hard coal, and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the hig ...
coal. The company would later expand to the manufacture and trading of "Stoves and ranges, hot-air furnaces, parlor grates and fenders, fire irons, cauldrons and kettles, statuary, candelabra, fountains garden seats, vases, iron pipes or every kind, water tanks, &c" are mentioned in Benson John Lossing, ''History of New York City.'' Mott was interested in the patenting of inventions, but turned down President Buchanan's offer to make him Commissioner of Patents.
The business was continued by Mott's son, J.L. Mott, Jr. The J. L. Mott Iron Works shop occupied the entire 11 floors of a building shop in Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth Street. An account cited that the basement, first and second floors displayed plumbing and bathroom fixtures. The rest of the upper floors were devoted to hospital, marine, and tile departments as well as the ornamental, heating, and furnaces departments. Plumbing fixtures, including enameled cast iron bathtubs were also a J.L. Mott specialty.
At the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876, an elaborate cast iron fountain, 25 feet tall, was exhibited by the company. According to the exposition review, ''Gems of the Centennial Exposition'' all of the modeling of architectural forms, basins and figures was completed by artisans of the company. Figures were molded in clay, then cast in plaster to provide the moulds for the cast iron, in a process similar to bronze-founding. The lowest "pan" or basin was ten feet in diameter, said at the time to have been the largest such cast-iron basin in the United States. Some examples of the fountain figure '' The Boy with the Leaking Boot'' in various American and Canadian cities were purchased from the company.
The company relocated in about 1902 to Trenton, New Jersey.
In 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp may have selected a urinal from the J.L. Mott showroom in Manhattan and presented it as a work of art called '' Fountain'' at the Society of Independent Artists exhibition. This episode marks the introduction of the readymade in the history of modern art.
The Mott Iron Works company/ref> was established in 1984 in Massachusetts, United States, and has no connection with the earlier company.
See also
* Monumental Bronze Company * J. W. Fiske & Company *Scanlan Fountain
Scanlan Fountain is an 1891 cast iron fountain, installed in Houston's Sam Houston Park, in the U.S. state of Texas. The fountain was installed in the park in 1972. It was cast by J. L. Mott Iron Works 1880 and held by a private individual befor ...
References
Further reading
* - company history and images of bathroom fittingsExternal links
* - 753 images from the company's catalogues * - Obituary of son of the founder *{{cite web, url=http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/manholes/manhole.html, title=Manhole and coal chute covers, work=Forgotten New York street scenes, accessdate=2009-07-15 - includes images of J. L. Mott ironworkModern Plumbing - J. L. Mott Iron Works (1921)
Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Digital Library. Manufacturing companies based in New Jersey Companies based in Trenton, New Jersey Mott Haven, Bronx History of the Bronx American companies established in 1828 Manufacturing companies established in 1828 1828 establishments in New York (state) Stoves Foundries in the United States Ironworks and steel mills in the United States