Hutting Sash & Door Company

2303 North Market Street

A fleet of delivery trucks in the garage at the Huttig Sash and Door Company factory in 1953. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, https://floridamemory.com/items/show/167285

Huttig was founded as a sawmill and lumberyard in Muscatine, IA by brothers, Charles and William Huttig in 1866. By the 1920s, the company had evolved into a window sash and door manufacturer. In 1923, they expanded to Jacksonville with the construction of this manufacturing plant at 2303 North Market Street.

Outside Huttig's modified truck loading dock in 1957. Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, https://floridamemory.com/items/show/167230

This building is one of a few of +90 year old buildings still standing that illustrate the evolution of industrial design since Telfair Stockton’s original development of the industrial district. To accommodate the invention of the semi-truck, the northeast section of the building has been removed and converted into an area for truck trailers.

Inside Huttig's Springfield office in 1957. Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, https://floridamemory.com/items/show/167226

Today, the company is known as Huttig Building Products. While they have moved on from the Springfield Warehouse District, their West Jacksonville operation is one of only four Huttig facilities in Florida.

Article by Ennis Davis, AICP. Contact Ennis at edavis@moderncities.com