5-storey Furniture Manufacturer on Lexington and 42. By 1872, they employed 700 men and 50 women. They also produced simpler and cheaper furniture at that time.

M. & H. Schrenkeisen, which specialized in the production of parlor furniture for the middle class, was one of many immigrant furniture makers located on the Lower East Side, known in the nineteenth century as Klein Deutschland (Little Germany). Although many smaller German workshops dotting the streets of Little Germany faded in and out over the course of the second half of the century, factories like that of Schrenkeisen on Elizabeth Street successfully produced on a large scale, employing the