Location: 56 Liberty.

This firm was listed in the 1867 New York State Business Directory as a Steam Engine Builder.

By 1870, the firm has become Haskell & Orchard.

Information Sources

• New York State Business Directory, 1867, pg. 475
• Vermont State Business Directory, 1870, pg.109 in the Advertising Dept.
• 1870-71 Gazetteer and Business Directory of Albany & Schenectady Co., N.Y., p. 458.

  Haskell & Orchard, proprietors of the Albany Iron [&] Machine Works, advertise on page 256. They make a great variety of Iron work, among which arc Steam Engines and Boilers, Iron Bridges, Balconies, Falling, &c.; in fact yoa will hardly fail to find anything you may want made of Iron. Their works are on Liberty Street, office No 56. They send Catalogues on application. They make patterns at short notice, and repair all kinds of machinery. Persons In want of any plain or ornamental iron work will do well to call.

  These works were established In 1847 by Starks & Pruyn, who were succeeded by Pruyn & Lansing, who carried on the business until 1867, when they were succeeded by Haskell & Orchard. The works, are centrally located; the machine shop has lathes for all kinds of heavy and light work, from the smallest pattern to the most massive machinery. The Low-Pressure Engine, for the Albany Iron Manufacturing Co., on the Island below the City, was made here and is one of the best In the country. The best quality of American Plate Iron is used in the manufacture of Boilers, and every one la made under the personal supervision of Mr. Orchard, who has no superior as a workman in this country. Railings and Iron Bridges, and all kinds of iron used for building purposes, are manufactured at these works. The Iron bridges across the Erie Cawal at the principal cities along the line, As well as most of the iron railroad bridges, were made here. The works are superintended by Wm. H. Low, whose reputation as a mechanical draughtsman is not surpassed In the State. Send for a catalogue or call and see for yourselves.