Incorporated in 1922, State Brass Foundry’s location on State Street in Salt Lake City has always stood out to me as a really cool looking place. Lately is looks abandoned and like it might fade away so I stopped by to document it to be able to look back on.
I was a machinist there for several years. The shop was cramped, dirty and cold in the winter. We didn’t go out of business, and now have two large buildings, one for the foundry and another for the machine shop, in Tooele. Also, there wasn’t all the graffiti when we were there. Kim (Archer, the owner) wouldn’t have stood for it. And just as kinda a cool fact, the main building was, back in the early 1900’s, a laundry. My sister, a professional photographer, came and took a bunch of photos about a year before we moved. So some record of it does exists.