Selden Motor Vehicle Company

A. Friederich & Sons Co. constructed this building in 1909 for the Selden Motor Vehicle Corporation. Selden held the first U.S. patent for a "horseless carriage" and thus, controversially, is considered the inventor of the automobile. By 1935, the building was occupied by Samson United Corporation, a household electric appliance manufacturer. After that, the building was occupied by Stromberg-Carlson. Two engineers from Stromberg-Carlson (Bill Stolze and Elmer Schwittek) co-founded RF Communications, Inc., which moved into the building in 1962. Harris acquired RF Communications in 1969, and merged with L3 in 2019 to become L3Harris, the current owner.