Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse

Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse
IndustryManufacturing
Founded1852; 173 years ago (1852)
Defunct1936 (1936)
FateBankrupted
Products
  • Stoves
  • Pans
  • Utensils

Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse, Co. was a kitchen equipment manufacturer that was founded in 1852. Early in its existence, its address was 43 & 45 Wooster Street in New York City.[1] It had a factory in SoHo, and it had sales offices in Boston, Chicago, and the U.S. capital. The company specialized in commercial stoves, which were sold to passenger ships, hospitals and prisons, but it also sold paraphernalia such as knives, pans, sieves and all kinds of kitchen utensils.[2] In 1905, following a workers' strike at its New York factory, the company lowered the workweek to 50 hours.[3] By 1907, it proclaimed itself a manufacturer of "Imperial French Ranges and High Grade Cooking Apparatus", as well as a general kitchen outfitter.[4]

Duparquet made a stove for Delmonico's;[5] the kitchen of the Otesaga was furnished by Duparquet,[6] as was that of The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.[7]

Among private owners, Jay Gould's mansion had a Duparquet from the 1880s,[8] and Woodrow Wilson's retirement home had a coal-fired one which was used by the servants.[9] Frederick William Vanderbilt bought a Duparquet range with a cooking surface measuring 9' x 3'4" for $400 in 1898 for his country house in Hyde Park,[10] as did R. J. Reynolds for the house in Winston-Salem he built in 1917.[11]

As late as 1933–1934, Duparquet provided maintenance and remodelation to the kitchen and lunchroom of the Frick.[12] The company went bankrupt in 1936;[13] a new concern re-registered the trademark in 2008.[14]

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References

  1. ^ "DITR: Bryan's Duparquet saucepan". Vintage French Copper. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Copper on the Stove: Honoring Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse, Co". copper.org. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Labor and Industry". Galena Tribune. Tribune Publishing Company. 29 September 1905. p. 2. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Letterhead | D'Youville College Archives". archives.dyclibrary.net. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  5. ^ "The Ultimate Kitchen Tool: A Hand-Forged Copper Pan". townandcountrymag.com. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  6. ^ ""O-TE-SA-GA"" (PDF). The Otsego Farmer. No. 32, Vol. XXIII. 16 July 1909. p. 2. Retrieved 14 December 2021. The kitchen equipment [...] was furnished by the Duparquet Huot & Moneuse company
  7. ^ "THE BELLEVUE-STRATFORD HOTEL" (PDF). Architectural Record. No. 3, Vol. XVII. March 1905. p. 270. Retrieved 14 December 2021. The cooking equipment was furnished by the Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse Co.
  8. ^ "Filling in Lyndhurst's Working History: Stove Grill Replacement with Plastic Casting". forum.savingplaces.org. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Anatomy of an Old-House Kitchen - Old House Journal Magazine". oldhouseonline.com. 5 January 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  10. ^ "irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/466658". irma.nps.gov. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Founder of Reynolda House Museum of American Art Publishes New Book About the Technology that Made Her Family Home a Modern Marvel". Reynolda. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Finding Aid for The Frick Collection Construction Records, 1933-1937" (PDF). 29 June 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  13. ^ Livia Rassow (1 September 2015). "Copper Marvel". Boston. Retrieved 14 December 2021. Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse, Co., a defunct New York City kitchenware company that shuttered in 1936
  14. ^ "Copper on the Stove: Honoring Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse, Co".