"The beginning of the very extensive Nagle industries was the frame shop on the corner of Sixteenth and Holland Streets, built by T. M. Nagle in 1879. Mr. Nagle had been superintendent of the Erie City Iron Works, but in the year named decided to engage in business on his own account. His business has had a marvelous growth. A foundry was built on Sixteenth Street in 1883. In 1884 he was employing 60 employees and making 400 engines a year. Two years later a large machine shop and boiler works, occupying two-thirds of the square opposite were erected, Then, on the east side of East Avenue a spacious brick building was erected. The Pennsylvania Boiler Works, another immense structure. was built on the extension of Twelfth Street in 1890. In 1907 the very large brick shop on the southwest corner of Twelfth Street and East Avenue was erected—the Standard Sawmill Machinery Company building adjoining on the west, being a Nagle industry. In 1909, still another great addition to the plant was made at the eastern end of the property beyond East Avenue, making the length of that series of shops more than an eighth of a mile. The Nagle Engine & Boiler Works was incorporated in 1896." (Quote from 1909)

Information Sources

• American Steam Engine Builders: 1800-1900 by Kenneth L. Cope, 2006, page 164
• A twentieth century history of Erie County, Pennsylvania, by J. Miller, 1909, pages 694-695