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Sharples Separator Works

Field	Value
name	Sharples Separator Works
image	SharplesWorks.JPG
caption	Sharples Separator Works, January 2010
location	N. Franklin and Evans Sts., West Chester, Pennsylvania
coordinates
locmapin	Pennsylvania#USA
built	1893
architect	Multiple
added	June 28, 1984
area	5 acre
refnum	84003214

The Sharples Separator Works, also known as the Gumas Warehouse and Kauffman Warehouse, is an historic, American factory complex that is located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

History and architectural features

Built between 1890 and 1909 by Philip M. Sharples, this site includes fourteen contributing buildings, which range between one and three stories each, are of brick construction, and have low-pitched gable roofs or hipped roofs. It was home to the manufacturing works for the Sharples Tubular Centrifugal Separator, the first cream separator that was invented in the United States.

Gallery

File:Sharples Special Train.png|Train shipment of Sharples cream separators

References

{{NRISref
Alice Kent Schooler. (February 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Sharples Separator Works". National Archives and Records Administration.

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