Description: 1912 LETTERHEAD, BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA, MOORE-HANDLEY HARDWARE CO. ORIGINAL. ESTABLISHED IN 1882ADDRESS: AVE A & 21ST ST.PRESIDENT: J D MOOREVP & TREAS.: B F MOORE SECRETARY: H W COFFINWENT OUT OF BUSINESS IN THE LAST 15 YEARS The Alabama-based business which would evolve as Moore-Handley, Inc. came into being in 1882 as Moore, Moore & Handley, named after its founders James D. Moore, Benjamin F. Moore, and W.A. Handley. James Moore had moved to Birmingham that year, though he and Handley had been business partners in an earlier venture, a rural country store in Randolph County, Alabama, where Moore, for several years a teacher, had helped found Roanoke Institute. He and his partners proved to be both shrewd and lucky, and the early record of the new company was unusual for 'its rapidly enhancing fortunes and daring enterprise.' The company was created as a wholesale hardware business at the outset, but the good fortune of the partners initially came from real estate investments. In 1884, after already having moved twice, the company bought property for $15,000 from which they made a considerable profit. They built the Metropolitan Hotel on a portion of the land, rebuilt it after a fire, and then sold it for $175,000. Also, from rents and the sale of a portion of the property they garnered revenues great enough to capitalize their business at $100,000 when they incorporated it as the Moore & Handley Hardware Company in 1888. The company would move again in 1903, six years before Handley died. Just before his death in June 1909, the partners reincorporated the business with a capital of $500,000. Thereafter, Moore-Handley emerged as 'one of the great mercantile houses in the South.' Through the next several decades, Moore-Handley developed into a chain of hardware and building supply stores located throughout the southeastern part of the United States. It was also a distributor of industrial and electrical supplies and machine tools. SEE MY STORE: VINTAGE HARDWARE STORE COLLECTIBLES ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE.
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