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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 591717, member: 136&quot;]For those interested, here&#039;s a bit of additional info:</p><p><br /></p><p>The company most Americans today know as Ethan Allen was founded in 1932 in NYC as Baumritter Corp.</p><p><br /></p><p>The owners of Baumritter started as makers/sellers of home goods and décor items. They did not even manufacture and sell furniture until 1939, after buying a furniture manufacturing plant in Vermont.</p><p><br /></p><p>Baumritter named its Early American line of furniture “Ethan Allen” after the Revolutionary War hero from Vermont.</p><p><br /></p><p>The company’s name was changed from Baumritter Corp. to Ethan Allen Industries in 1972.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Just for the record:&nbsp; </i></p><p><i>Through her career in interior design, my mother became good friends with one of the co-owners of Baumritter (Nathan Ancell, who was married to Theodore Baumritter &#039;s sister. )</i></p><p><i>I grew up with much talk of Baumritter/Ethan Allen – and toured that Bellows Falls, VT factory several times.</i></p><p><i>It was actually Nathan Ancell who convinced Mom to take a position at the Ethan Allen headquarters when it opened in CT in 1972.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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