Edward Spear fitted up machinery in 1848 on the corner of Market and Pine streets, for the manufacture of doors, sash, and blinds.
The original building was burned down in 1826, and they then removed further down into a btick building, but the dam, built in 1839, drowned them out, and they again moved, going to .where the VanGorder property is, into a building still standing.  Edward Spear fitted up machinery in 1848 on the corner of Market and Pine streets, for the manufacture of doors, sash, and blinds.  In 1854 it was removed to its present site an Canal street.