The “Piano Factory” building is located on North Water Street in Poughkeepsie, next to the Fallkill River.  Painted lettering on the façade names the building “Davis and Co. Piano Hammers”.  It was also previously part of the Innis Dye Works.  The building is now residential condos.

A 1980 building inventory form describes the following history:  “The building is shown on the 1887 Sanborn Map as part of “Innis and Company, Dye Works, Dye Stuffs, Extracts, Log Woods, Etc.” and was used for pulverizing and storage.  According to Platt, the Innis Company was founded by Aaron Innish prior to 1838, after which time his son, George, ran the company until 1898, ‘when the dye works industry was forced to give way to aniline dyes’. George Innis was a prominent citizen and was three times elected mayor in the 1860’s. By 1913, this edifice was a piano hammer factory, in 1934 the Poughkeepsie Dye Stuffs Corporation, and since 1935 has been used as a warehouse.”

Location:  Google Maps (41.708850, -73.938742)