Cleveland’s abandoned Warner & Swasey complex
The WARNER & SWASEY CO. was a leading manufacturer of machine tools, telescopes, and precision instruments. New England machinists WORCESTER P. WARNER† and AMBROSE SWASEY† formed a partnership in Chicago in 1880. They moved to Cleveland. They opened a machine tool shop on Carnegie Ave. near E. 55th St. in Aug. 1881. The firm produced turret lathes for tanks and planes used in several wars. Utilizing the same techniques and machinery used to produce machine tools, they also produced telescopes. In 1886 the firm built the largest telescope at the time for the Lick Observatory in California, and later completed large telescopes for the U.S. Naval Observatory and the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. During World War II, the company employed 7,000 people. Warner & Swasey’s closed it last remaining plant in Solon in Jan. 1992 ending the century old company.
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Cleveland’s abandoned Warner & Swasey complex