Encyclopedia Dubuque
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DUBUQUE CABINET MAKERS' ASSOCIATION
DUBUQUE CABINET MAKERS' ASSOCIATION. One of Dubuque's earliest and most profitable corporations. Chartered on June 15, 1867, the Association was involved in the manufacture and purchase of furniture. A three-story frame building was constructed as a factory on the corner of Jackson and Tenth STREETS. Fire destroyed this building on January 11, 1870, at a loss of $15,000.
A new four-story brick structure was quickly built on the same site. On August 15, 1877, the company was reorganized. In 1894 the former Dubuque Universalist Church on Tenth and Main Streets was sold to the Association that remained there until the building was sold to the Dubuque Electric Company in 1924.
