• This photograph shows the east-facing side and the south-facing side of the shoemaker's shop. The complex of buildings that formed the northeast corner of the Christiansbrunn quadrangle stood south of this shop (to the left in the photograph). (Photo used courtesy of the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem.)

  • This photograph also shows the east-facing side and the south-facing side of the shoemaker's shop. The complex of buildings that formed the northeast corner of the Christiansbrunn quadrangle stood south of this shop (to the left in the photograph). The building in the foreground, as yet unidentified, stood to the east of the quadrangle, between it and the Monocacy Creek. (Photo used courtesy of the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem.)

  • The drawing below was produced in 1887 for an article on Christiansbrunn in the American Magazine. It helps us place the Shoemaker's Shop in relation to the Gemeinhaus and the SIngle Brethren's House.

  • This image of the Shoemaker's Shop was drawn by John Woolf Jordan in 1873. Of interest is that Jordan identified this building as both the Shoemaker's Shop and the "Dead House," the building in which bodies would be stored before burial. (Image used courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.)
  • On the left side of this image, produced in 1873, John Woolf Jordan drew a structure he identified as both the Shoemaker's Shop and the "Dead House," the building in which bodies would be stored before burial. (Image used courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.)

    The Christiansbrunn diary indicates that the shoemaker's shop, still incomplete in late 1769, was completed in early 1770. The shop was built just north of the main quadrangle that had formed the footprint of Christiansbrunn.

    These photographs of the shoemaker's shop were taken, as far as can be determined, in the 1860s, the 1870s, or the 1890s.

    Shoemakers worked in Christiansbrunn before the Shoemaker's Shop was constructed. Here is the 1762 inventory of the trade:

    3 Werckstellen - 3 work stations
    5 Schuster Stuhle - 5 shoemaker chairs
    2 Faessel 26 Gute Leisten - 26 good trims/lath
    30 Schlechte Do. - 30 bad trims/lath
    19 kleine Do. - 19 small trims/lath
    1Leder Zange - 1 leather tong
    1 D. Schlecht - 1 bad tong
    2 Kneif Zangen - 2 pinching tong
    3 Schuster hammer -
    3 cobbler hammers
    5 Wasgeln 2 feilen - 2 files
    16 Schuh Oerter mit hefter
    42 Do. one.
    Do. 3
    Stuck 2

     

    The image below is our best attempt to locate the Shoemaker's Shop on a 1795 map of the Christiansbrunn community.

     

    Trade
    Shoemaker