Industry History | Boeing — The Red Barn That Was Floated to Boeing Field
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Industry History | Boeing — The Red Barn That Was Floated to Boeing Field
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People look for the first Boeing plant in a Renton assembly bay or a Chicago headquarters tower.
The first factory that carried the work was a two-story balloon-frame boat shop, built in 1909 on the Duwamish, later called the Red Barn.
William E. Boeing bought the Heath Shipyard building in 1910 to finish a yacht. After he and Navy officer George Conrad Westervelt assembled and then wrecked a Martin seaplane, they designed their own machine, the B&W, and Boeing incorporated Pacific Aero Products Company on 15 July 1916.
The barn became engineering rooms and a shop. Carpenters, cabinetmakers, seamstresses, and shipwrights built the first airframes the way they had built boats.
On 9 May 1917, twenty days after the United States entered the First World War, the firm reincorporated as the Boeing Airplane Company. The Navy took the Model C trainer. The company quoted an order for fifty machines and consolidated the work at the Duwamish yard, which workers called Oxbow, Plant 1, and, most often, the Red Barn.
The building stayed the main Seattle plant until Plant 2 opened across the river at Boeing Field in 1936. Boeing sold the original site to the Port of Seattle in 1970. Most of Plant 1 came down.
The barn itself was listed on the National Register and, on 16 December 1975, barged about two miles up the Duwamish, then rolled across East Marginal Way to the south end of Boeing Field.
Restored, it opened in 1983 as the first permanent hall of the Museum of Flight at 9404 East Marginal Way South. The pin is the standing building, not the demolished shipyard lot.
The original ground is now part of Port of Seattle Terminal 115. What a visitor can walk into is the moved barn.
Photo: InSapphoWeTrust, CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons.
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