Albert A. Pope was born in Maine to parents who had immigrated from England several years earlier. Pope came to Cleveland with his parents at age 19 in 1861. After the Civil War, Pope's father entered the wool trade, and he worked there a short time before investing in the Cleveland Malleable Castings Co. in 1869. By 1879 he was president went on to buy several other casting mills in the Great Lakes region to form National Malleable and Steel Castings Co. in 1891. In 1879, Pope also started the Eberhard Manufacturing Co. to supply castings to wagon and carriage makers. By the 1890s, the newly rich Pope had his own Millionaires' Row home, but he and his wife departed in 1901 to live with their daughter on her estate in Farmington, Connecticut. It was during this time that Pope decided to build the showpiece skyscraper that served for the next 70+ years as the Halle Bros. Co.'s flagship store. | Creator: E. G. Williams & Son, N.Y. | Source: Cleveland Vol. 1 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918), 34, ocm01260216, Cleveland Public Library, Center for Local and Global History.Download Original File
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E. G. Williams & Son, N.Y.
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Cleveland Vol. 1 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918), 34, ocm01260216, Cleveland Public Library, Center for Local and Global History.
"Albert Atmore Pope (1842-1913)" appears in: Halle Building
