At the Right Place
By Virginia Persing and Donna Amick
Straube Foundation, Inc., 1996, 70 pp.
Illustrated with 9 artworks of the Straube Center by multiple artists.
The story of the development of the Straube Center in Pennington, and of its founder, Win Straube back to his family in Germany. With the history of the site: originally an iron foundry, and also used for the manufacture of coal briquettes, military goods during World War I, wire and cable, candy, Cointreau liqueurs, and cosmetics.
Chapter 1: A Small Town, USA 1
– Pennington: past and place
Chapter 2: A Grand Saxon city 5
– Straube family in Germany
Chapter 3: Possibilities in the Ruins15
– Beginnings of the Straube Center
Chapter 4: The Foundry 23
– Foundry to candy factory
Chapter 5: The Distillery 31
– Cointreau, other owners, renovations
Chapter 6: The Global Village 45
– Straube Center tenants
Chapter 7: The Future Is a Place 51
The Straube companies, Fine arts
Tag – PennBoro
File – 1996-Pennington-Straube-Center-Right-Place-TSC.pdf
