The Sharples Separator Works, also known as the Gumas Warehouse and Kauffman Warehouse, is an historic, American

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. Th ...

complex that is located in West Chester,

Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Tscheschter Kaundi''), colloquially referred to as Chesco, is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1984.

History and architectural features

Built between 1890 and 1909 by Philip M. Sharples, this site includes fourteen contributing buildings, which range between one and three stories each, are of brick construction, and have low-pitched gable roofs or hipped roofs. It was home to the manufacturing works for the Sharples Tubular Centrifugal Separator, the first

cream separator A separator is a centrifugal device that separates milk into cream and skimmed milk. Separation was commonly performed on farms in the past. Most farmers milked a few cows, usually by hand, and separated milk. Some of the skimmed milk was cons ...

that was invented in the United States. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

in 1984.

Gallery

File:Sharples Special Train.png, Train shipment of Sharples cream separators

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania West Chester, Pennsylvania Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Industrial buildings completed in 1909 Buildings and structures in Chester County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania 1909 establishments in Pennsylvania