About Our Building

Home tour to feature historic Miamisburg building

The Acme Folding Boat Company Building

432 E. Pearl St.

The triangular-shaped brick building located at 432 E. Pearl St. was built by the Acme Folding Boat Company in 1890. The company produced two styles of boats, the Acme Flat Bottom Boat and the Eureka Round Bottom Boat. The wood framed and canvas boats were favored by travelers because they could be easily folded and carried when trekking across land. Writer Lowell Thomas is known to have used an Acme Folding Boat during his travels. Folding boats were made in this building through the 1950’s.

During the 1970’s, a train derailment caused a train car to come through the side of the building facing the railroad tracks and brick replacement became a necessity. In 1983, Mark and John Gilbert remodeled the site and soon after sold it to the current owners.

Today the building presents a pleasant combination of historic industrial architecture and modern office space. Doug and Betsy Griffith use the building as office space for their company, Business Plans. The first floor is occupied by Haffenbrack’s Graphic Design Studio.

Visitors on the tour can view the patterns used to make the wooden frames and an actual canvas boat on display in the building’s atrium. Architectural features of the building include hammered glasswork salvaged from the old Reynolds and Reynolds building in Dayton, solid walnut wood working and glimpses of heavy timber beams showing above new clean white walls.

From the Wednesday, July 16, 1991 article published in The Miamisburg/West Carrollton News

ACME Folding Boat Company on Historical Home Tour - .pdf

Links to Other Local Businesses and Web Sites

• City of Miamisburg – www.ci.miamisburg.oh.us
• MyBurg.com – www.myburg.com
• Miamisburg Rotary – http://www.miamisburgrotary.org/
• Better Business Bureau of Dayton – http://dayton.bbb.org/
• South Metro Regional Chamber of Commerce – http://www.smrcoc.org/
• Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce – http://www.daytonchamber.org/

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