- June 30, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Eighty-Four Years Ago: On a swelteringly hot July 4th morning in 1937, Syracuse residents awoke to a headline that made Independence Day a little bit cooler.
After several months of negotiations between the city and Dr. Willis Carrier, the “father of air-conditioning,” Carrier Corporation purchased the mammoth former H.H. Franklin Manufacturing factory complex at 300 South Geddes Street, for the paltry sum of $1,000.
It was a rather appropriate site considering; from air-cooled automobiles to air-cooling machines.
At that point in time, Carrier was based in Newark, New Jersey, but the company’s operations were spread out across five separate locations in two different states.