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Hammert's Iron Works
Stupp Bros., Inc.


Hammert's Iron Works









 

1800's 1900's 2000's

 

 

1901 - Kansas City Bridge Company orders seven bridges from Stupp Brothers delivered to five different Kansas locations.

 

1903 - Stupp Brothers purchases 10 acres in South St. Louis to build a larger plant on Weber Road.

 

1904 - Stupp Brothers receives an award for their display at the St. Louis World's Fair.

 

1915 - Johann Stupp dies at 88 years of age.

 

1918 - Stupp Brothers contributes to the war effort by fabricating parts for Liberty ships.

 

1927 - Stupp Brothers sells more than 1,000 tons of fabricated steel for construction of paper mills in the southern United States.

 

1928 - Erwin Stupp, with others, founded the Lafayette South Side Bank and Trust Company which later merges with Lemay Ferry Bank in 1939 with later becomes the present day Midwest Bank Centre.

 

1929 - Stupp Brothers is chosen to supply the steel for the St. Louis Arena.

 

1933 - Stupp Brothers provides the steel for the construction of the Kiel Auditorium.

 

1938 - Stupp Brothers fashions the electronic scoreboard and eight floodlight towers for Sportsman's Park enabling night baseball.

 

1941 - Responding to a call for help from the Navy Bureau of Ships, Stupp Brothers enters a venture which builds 176 Landing Craft Transports.

 

1944 - Jefferson Barracks Bridge is completed by Supp and partners.

 

1949 - Stupp Brothers completes a 796-mile natural gas pipeline from northwest Texas to Illinois.

 

1952 - Stupp joins in a partnership and opens a pipe mill in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

 

1956 - Stupp Brothers celebrates its 100th anniversary.

 

1960 - Stupp's major projects include the Missouri River bridge at Rocheport, Missouri, a construction trestle for the Yanhee Dam in Thailand and a major construction expansion for Granite City Steel Company.

 

1967 - Stupp purchases 105 acres in the Baton Rouge area to expand the pipe company.

 

1974 - As part of the construction of a refinery Stupp ships 900 tons of fabricated steel to Indonesia.

 

1978 - Stupp fabricates 7,388 tons of steel for a high rise building for the First National Bank in St. Louis.

 

1982 - An unusual contract from NASA to design and build two straddle-carrier transporters comes the Stupp Brothers way.  These solid-fuel carriers were essential to the "moon" shot and also a key element in the Pentagon's plan to protect MX multiple-warhead missiles from attack.  Stupp designed the carrying structures for the Department of Defense.

 

1983 - Stupp Brothers provides 3,266 tons of fabricated steel for the Adam's Mark Hotel.

 

1984 - Stupp Brothers provides steel for the Metropolitan Square Building - a 42 story, 597 foot skyscraper that fills a full block in downtown St. Louis.

 

1991 - The company adopts "S" Corporation status.  A new holding company is named Stupp Brothers, Inc.  Stupp Corporation, and Builders Engineering are divisions of the new holding company which also retains majority ownership of the Lemay Bank and Trust Company.

 

1993 - Stupp Brothers, Inc. creates a new company named Bayou Coating, L.L.C. and constructs a new facility adjacent to the Stupp Corporation plant in Baton Rouge.  51% of Hammert's Iron Works stock is purchased.

 

1998 - Weber Road plant is closed.  A new 80-acre site is selected in Bowling Green, Kentucky for a bridge girder fabrication facility.  The new facility allows Stupp to produce girders at a much lower cost.  Stupp Brothers Bridge and Iron changes its name to Stupp Bridge Company.

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