W. & L. E. Gurley Building

Infobox_nrhp | name =W. & L. E. Gurley Building
nrhp_type = nhl
locmapin = New York

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caption = View from southwest, 2008
location= Troy, NY
lat_degrees = 42 | lat_minutes = 43 | lat_seconds = 56.52 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73 | long_minutes = 41 | long_seconds = 17.93 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1862
architect= Unknown
architecture= Classical Revival
designated= May 04, 1983cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=952&ResourceType=Building
title=W. & L.E. Gurley Building|date=2007-09-23|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = March 05, 1970cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=70000432 The W. & L. E. Gurley Building, in Troy, New York, is a classical revival structure that housed the W. & L. E. Gurley Company, a maker of precision measuring instruments, from its construction in 1862. The company, run by William Gurley and his brother, Lewis Ephraim, was a leader in the field, and published a regularly updated manual of instruments and their operations. The company was acquired by Teledyne Company in the 1960's,cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=ny/ny0600/ny0678/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=1&itemLink=D?hh:2:./temp/~pp_gpa9:: |title=W. & L.E. Gurley Building HAER No. NY-13 |date=1969|accessdate=2008-01-16|work= |publisher=Historic American Engineering Record] and was sold again in 1993 and continues as Gurley Precision Instruments today.

The building was built in "an amazing feat of construction" in just 8 months to replace the previous building, which burned in the Great Troy Fire of 1862. The company was then engaged in producing military products for the American Civil War, which included "brass fuse-plugs for naval projectiles and an improved type of brass trimming for saddle trees."

The building is a four-story red brick building, U-shaped around a small courtyard. A foundry was at ground level on the north side of the courtyard.

The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1983.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/70000432.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: W. & L.E. Gurley Building] |641 KB|author=George R. Adams|date=November, 1977|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/70000432.pdf "Accompanying 6 photos, 5 exterior and 1 interior, from 1977 and c.1970"] |1.53 MB] The building is currently owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and houses its [http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/ Lighting Research Center] , which moved there in 2000, [cite web|url=http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/Magazine/Sep00/atRensselaer.html|title=Lighting Research Center: New Light For Historic Gurley Building |date=2000 |accessdate=2008-02-04|work= |publisher=Rensselaer Magazine] and a few acoustics labs associated with the school of architecture. Gurley Percision Instruments still occupies the first floor of the building and the entire building directly across the street.

It is located on Fulton Street between 5th and Union Streets in Troy.

HAER photos

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External links

* [http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=286&setappvar=page(1) Gurley Precision, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhphoto&fileName=ny/ny0600/ny0678/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=W.%20%26%20L.%20E.%20Gurley%20Building,%20514%20Fulton%20Street,%20Troy,%20Rensselaer%20County,%20NY&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:2:./temp/~pp_gpa9:: W. & L.E. Gurley Building, 6 photos] , at Historic American Buildings Survey