Huttig Building Products history

Less than seven months after the fires, the company moved into a new state-of-the-art millwork plant, which opened in January 1912.

In July 1919 a subsidiary, the Birmingham Sash & Door Company, was opened in Birmingham, Alabama.

But Siegel's sudden death in November 1926 scuttled the deal and United States Door Company never came to pass.

In addition, Huttig sold its Charlotte operation in 1929.

Also in 1934 Huttig acquired an operation from the Roanoke Glass and Door Company, establishing an operation in Roanoke, Virginia, to serve the Shenandoah Valley and Washington, D.C. markets.

A new branch was then opened in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1949.

Huttig began building a new warehouse in the western part of St Louis, which opened in 1954.

In addition, in 1955 the Knoxville branch expanded its facility, as did Nashville a year later.

To close the decade, in April 1959 Siegel, after serving the company for 34 years, turned over the presidency to T.R. Armstrong.

Another significant development in 1967 was the purchase of 20 percent of the company's stock by the Crane Co.

By now Huttig was operating 27 distribution facilities in 26 states along with its lone millwork manufacturing plant in Oregon, all of which in 1976 combined to generate sales in excess of $100 million for the first time in company history.

In 1982 Huttig acquired Palmetto Sash & Door Company and Southern Manufacturing Company of Orangeburg, South Carolina, to expand its presence in the Carolinas.

"The Huttig Story," Chesterfield, Mo.: Huttig Sash & Door Company, 1985.