Ball and Roller Bearing Company

The Ball and Roller Bearing Company, also known as American Family Crafts and the Joseph Nutt House and Machine Shop, is a historic industrial complex at 20-22 Maple Avenue in Danbury, Connecticut. The complex includes three buildings, two of which are wood frame and one which is brick. The two wood frame buildings include the Queen Anne-style former home of Joseph Nutt, who established a machine shop providing services to Danbury's hat making industry in 1886. Nutt's home also served as his company's office, and is attached to a single-story monitor-roofed brick structure. The factory is most notable as the location where Lewis Heim, owner of the Ball and Roller Bearing Company, invented the modern centerless grinding machine in 1917.[2]

Ball and Roller Bearing Company
Location20-22 Maple Avenue, Danbury, Connecticut
Coordinates41°23′54″N 73°27′8″W
Area0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built1917
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.89001087[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 25, 1989

The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1989.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. William E. Devlin (February 1, 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Ball and Roller Bearing Company / American Family Crafts / Joseph Nutt House and Machine Shop". National Park Service. and Accompanying 9 photos, exterior and interior, from 1984 and 1988


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