Since 1835

Well-made, useful, worth keeping.

It began in 1835, in a downtown New York housewares shop where two messenger boys delivered pots and pans through the city in baby carriages. In 1868 they reopened it under their own names — Lewis & Conger — and built one of New York’s most complete houses of well-made things for the home.

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Since 1835

From the Lewis & Conger Archive

Nearly two centuries of the useful and the improbable. Two of these three we really sold. One we made up.

Housewares chosen by one rule since 1835 — well-made, useful, worth keeping.

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Which one did we make up?

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From our ledgers

The Collection Record

Ninety-one years of our ledgers — date the artifacts, price the wares.

Artifacts from our shelves and ledgers, as the record has them — 1868 to 1959.

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Lewis & Conger · Collection Record

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