Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company

Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company

Founded	1852 (1852)
Defunct	Template:End date and age
Fate	Acquired by the Charles Parker Company
Headquarters	Meriden, Connecticut , United States
Area served	Primarily the United States
Key people	Nathaniel Bradley, Walter Hubbard
Products	Metalware, lamps, and related items

The Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company operated from 1852 until 1940 in Meriden, Connecticut, specializing in the production of Art Brass tables, call bells, candlesticks, clocks, match safes, lamps, as well as architectural grilles and railings. Throughout its history, the company secured patents for 238 unique designs and mechanical innovations. By the decade of the 1890s, Bradley & Hubbard had established a reputation for exceptional craftsmanship and artistic excellence, a status recognized by the Smithsonian Institution, which houses a significant collection of their works.

Co-founder Nathaniel Bradley was credited in 1895 with expanding the enterprise from a modest workshop with only six employees into an extensive facility covering nearly seven acres and employing approximately 1,500 individuals. The company also operated sales offices and showrooms in major cities including New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

In 1940, ownership of the company transferred to the Charles Parker Company.

As of 2016, more than 175 designs by Bradley & Hubbard are preserved in prominent museums across North America such as the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum; Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal; Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh; Connecticut Historical Society; The Henry Ford in Dearborn; Historic New England in Boston; Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica; Smithsonian Institution in Washington; Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford; and Yale University Art Gallery. Additionally, a bespoke interior installation by B&H is featured at the James Blackstone Memorial Library located in Branford, Connecticut.

Between 2006 and 2007, Bradley & Hubbard’s creations were highlighted in A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement, an exhibition curated by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio that toured Utica and New York City. A reviewer from The New York Times described this exhibition as "One of the small, must-see exhibitions this summer."