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"Visit Lipe Art Park for vibrant, changing exhibitions. Two acres of beautiful urban greenspace are used for the display and creation of sculpture and outdoor art in the open air of Syracuse's Warehouse District! "
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100 years old
SYRACUSE, New York
United States
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10/10/2007
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"The city would soon be nationally known for its cars, it candles, its typewriters, its time clocks, its china and its gears. Not to mention its soda ash, steel, shotguns, steam engines and men's shoes. And don't forget its garment presses, mincemeat, cans, boilers and radiators, and lanterns.
Franklin Chase, author of the 1924 history "Syracuse and Its Environs," summed up the early 20th century in Syracuse with this cl.. "In truth, Syracuse manufactured more different articles numerically than even New York City itself."
Syracuse's enterprise was diverse and frenetic, but if any one place symbolized the era, perhaps it was the C.E. Lipe Co. machine shop at 208 S. Geddes St.
Established in 1880 by Charles E. Lipe, the son of a German-born farmer, the machine shop became a haven for inventors and an incubator of industries. Lipe himself was prolific, inventing a cigar-rolling machine, a broom-winding machine, motion picture equipment, automatic looms and time recorders.
Working with Alexander T. Brown, another engineering whiz, Lipe devised a two-speed gear for bicycles. In 1895, the two men started the Brown-Lipe Gear Co., which soon found a market supplying differentials to the automobile industry. Brown-Lipe Gear eventually became the Inland Fisher Guide unit of General Motors, which employed more than 1,300 people in Salina until GM closed that plant in 1993.
The Lipe Co., which made clutches and automotive manufacturing machinery, merged in 1942 with the Rollway Bearing Co., which Lipe's brother Willard had started in 1908. Today, Lipe-Rollway Corp. employs about 280 people in Liverpool making bearings and automated conveying systems.
Turn-of-the-century Syracuse, like the rest of America, was riding a tide of industrialism that was relentlessly transforming what had been an agrarian nation.
Railroads and trolleys crisscrossed the county, and the Erie Canal still carried cargo through downtown.
(Post Standard) Tim Knauss
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Syracuse, New York | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Occupation: | Art Park |
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About me:
Lipe Art Park was an un-utilized two acre strip of greenspace (and former trainyard) until 2007 when a group of artists, community members and civic organizations transformed the space into an open studio/exhibition space for artists and a neighborhood park for local residents. Providing artists with opportunities to create and exhibit within the historic Warehouse District encourages the interaction of art, artwork and the community to become engaged in the reclamation, revitalization and improvement of the urban environment. Lipe Art Park is a space where art, nature, and the diversity of the modern world come together in a unique setting only experienced in Syracuse New York. The Art Park is open to everyone, and includes a rotating collection of artwork from emerging, mid-career and established artists.
Lipe Art Park is located in Syracuse, New York on West Fayette Street (between West St + South Geddes Street).
Please sign up for the Lipe Art Park Volunteer Registry by emailing your name and contact information to:
LipeArtPark@gmail.com
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June - September 2007
Lipe Art Park is featuring the work of: Martine Kaczinsky, Andy Schuster, Carol Adamec, Angelo Puccia, Anne Novado-Cappuccilli, Steve Stone, David Brown, East Coast Decorative Concrete, and the young artists of Peaceful Schools, Clary Middle School, Seymour School, The Spanish Action League and Peace Inc.
The current exhibition focuses mainly on sculptural works in steel, with a dash of whimsy and interactive pieces which enagage the viewer in the contemplation of our industrial history while encouraging the imagination of our creative future. (Ty Marshal, Curator)
Be sure to try Martine Kaczynski's interactive sculpture titled "Ocean's View". You are encouraged to take your shoes off, bury your feet in the sand, close your eyes and allow the moving traffic to invoke the sounds of the ocean around you...
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