A five-story block of pressed red brick rises from a coursed rubble limestone base, its long facade fronting North Broadway in regular bays of round- and segmental-arched windows. Paired wooden double-hung sash sit beneath multi-pane transoms, and corbelled brick courses step up to a flat parapet. A lower four-story wing runs to the west. Faded ghost signs — later warehouse and surplus-store lettering — still ride the upper walls above boarded openings and truck-height loading doors, and a fire-darkened cornice hints at the vacant, hard-used interior behind the masonry.
The Standard Stamping Company, a maker of stamped and enameled tinware founded in 1881 by German immigrant George Wiegand, built the original five-story factory here in phases between 1887 and 1892. A four-story western wing followed in 1901, a northern addition in 1920, and a one-story wing ca. 1930, giving the plant its full extent along North Broadway. Manufacturing continued under later tenants — the Jakes–Evans Manufacturing Company from 1939 and the Biedermann Furniture Company from 1950 — before the complex passed to warehouse and surplus-storage use. It stood vacant when a fire tore through the buildings in October 2023, months after a local nonprofit had proposed rehabilitating them.
