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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: September 20, 2022
Caption: Greenhouse and Bakery Marker
Additional Description: Left Side Photos
About 1891, the large addition, believed to be constructed by the Hitchings Company, greatly enlarged the greenhouse to provide for tall plants. The bakery can be seen directly behind the greenhouse.

The only extant photo of the first Economy greenhouse (left side of picture) shows just the south face. It is believed that the north wall was solid with few or no windows, as was common with greenhouses built in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Harmony Society also enlisted hot boxes to grow plants.

Gardeners in the greenhouse addition, September 1891.

Baker, Gottlieb Nagel takes a loaf of bread out of the oven. Charles and Mary Bauder also operated the Economy Bakery, eventually turning it into one of the first bakeries in Ambridge.
Submitted: September 20, 2022, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p679537
File Size: 3.232 Megabytes

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