Turn-of-the-century JL Mott Needle Shower and Curved Base
This shower and base was saved from a private home in Castleton, NY. It was manufactured by JL Mott Iron Works, NYC (the company moved to Trenton, NJ in 1902.) This was a very high-end piece in it’s day (original price: $52!) and very few have survived. Stop by the warehouse to check it out for yourself. We’ll have it set up and give you a demo of this great piece of history.
To accommodate the high interest in this shower the Parts Warehouse is conducting a silent auction for this piece. Submit your bid to Parts Warehouse manager Tom Gazda in person or via email (warehouse@historic-albany.org). Auction ends Oct 17th.
See Tom’s video tour below.
A huge thanks to volunteer extraordinaire Frank Coluccio for getting this shower up and running and displayed properly.
Frank!
There it is on the left. $52.
JL Mott’s Trenton, NJ factory after they moved production out of NYC.
JL Motts’ 5th Ave showroom
Link to the full 523-page 1908 JL Mott Catalog. This shower is shown on page 120. (This catalog can be quite the rabbit hole for the lover of old stuff. You’ve been warned…)
Sample bathroom with a similar shower/base combo (JL MOtt 1908 catalog)
Another sample bathroom from the era. (JL MOtt 1908 catalog)
More on needle showers here.
Below are some more cool images from the JL Mott Catalog (click on photo to enlarge).
