Monday, April 11, 2016

From Ace & Acme to Yorktown & Youngstown: 79 brands of metal kitchen cabinets made after World War II

pam kueber with republic kitchen cabinet setThe product that started it all — the blog, that is: Vintage steel kitchen cabinets. I wanted to renovate my kitchen. I wanted vintage steel kitchen cabinets. I went on a five-year quest to find them. Along the way I also obsessively researched how to put a 1950s-1960s kitchen together. When I was all done, it turned out so well that I started the blog to share what I had learned. In my kitchen-quest, I already had identified many brands of steel kitchen cabinets made back in the day. And in the years since — very often with the help of readers — we have identified a total of 79 different brands of metal kitchen cabinets built before, during but most after World War II. 78 brands of steel, one brand of aluminum; 75 brands in the U.S., four brands in the U.K.

Over the weekend, I pulled the complete list together into this annotated list. One of my next big projects for the year will be making stand-alone pages on each brand. I have scores of catalogs, will organize them, scan them, and post them. Plus, I will see what I’m missing and search to fill those gaps. In addition, scroll on down — I’ve created an uploader, I’d love to see your vintage steel kitchen cabinets, too — I can add them to the specific pages on each brand to come.

79 brands of metal kitchen cabinets — pretty amazing, huh!

  1. Ace
  2. Acme Metal Products Corp.
  3. Admiral
  4. Alden
  5. American
  6. American-Standard
  7. American Central Division
  8. Ampco
  9. Anemone Kitchen Furnishings
  10. Art Metal Cabinets
  11. Beautycraft Custom
  12. Beauty Queen
  13. Berger
  14. Briggs Beautyware
  15. Capitol
  16. Columbia
  17. Cox
  18.  Crane
  19. Crosley
  20. Dieterich Steel Cabinet Corp.
  21. Dupont-Dulux
  22. Elgin
  23.  English Rose
  24.  Frigidaire
  25. GE
  26. Geneva
  27. Gennesee
  28. Hotpoint
  29. Harrison Steel Cabinet Co.
  30. Hobart
  31. Hoffman
  32. Homart
  33. J&L Steel
  34.  Jamestown
  35. John Lewis of Hungerford
  36. Jubilee
  37. KBC
  38. Kitchen Kraft Steel Kitchens
  39. King
  40. Kitchen Queen
  41. Kelvinator
  42. Kohler
  43. Lyon
  44. Leisure Made
  45. Marvel
  46. Morton
  47. Midwest Mfg. Company
  48. Morgan Kitchen Cabinets
  49. Murray
  50. Miller Metal Proucts, Inc.
  51. Morhand Kitchens
  52. Montgomery Ward
  53. Olympia Aluminum Kitchen Kabinets
  54. Palace
  55. Palley Manufacturing Co.
  56. Paul
  57. Peerless-Mayer
  58. RCA-Whirlpool
  59. Regency
  60. Republic
  61. Reynolds
  62. Roberts & Mander Corp.
  63. St. Charles
  64. Servel, Inc.
  65. Sears
  66. Shirley
  67. Signature
  68. Stewart
  69. Swanco
  70. Thriftee
  71. Tracy
  72. Universal-Rundle
  73. United Lifetime Kitchens
  74. United Metal Cabinet Corp.
  75. Westinghouse
  76. Walters
  77. Whitehead Monel
  78. Yorktown
  79. Youngstown

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