Our History
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150 Years of Family and Craftsmanship
Timeline
1873
Dutch immigrant, John Barnabas Pike, establishes John B. Pike Company as a contractor in Rochester, New York.
1879
John B. Pike builds the Elwood Building. The multistory office building designed by James G. Cutler includes the first Cutler Mail Chute. The building would be razed in 1967.
1884
John Derek Pike is born and the only sibling of three to make it past childhood. In 1909, he would marry Agnes Johnston.
1891
The First Reformed Dutch Church of Brighton, New York, is dedicated. Although it is not a Pike job, John B. manages the construction as a member of the congregation.
1897
John B. Pike builds the Security Trust Bank’s lavish headquarters. The building is later expanded with a Claude Bragdon design. Nicknamed “The Temple,” the building would be razed in the early 1980s to make way for the Rochester Convention Center that Pike then did the concrete foundations on.
1907
John B. Pike Company moves from Minerva Place and builds a new office and mill at One Circle Street, Rochester, New York, which continues as Pike’s headquarters today.