The original name for the New Home was Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company and that name stayed with the owners and founders for about 22 years. At its height, New Home was making around 150,000 sewing machines in 1906 and 07 with a total of over 3,000,000 sewing machines made by the time the First World War broke out. Then in 1889 they purchased the old Orange Iron Foundry Company’s building and dedicated one floor of the building to each of the three models they were producing at the time.
Some of the earlier models were called New Home, Octagon, Favorite, and National. The men worked out of a 100 square foot shop in the beginning and as demand for their sewing machines rose and a 50% increase in their rent, they moved to larger quarters. They produced their version of the sewing machine for 22 years before forming the New Home corporation. Clark started their sewing machine company. It was 1860 and in New England when William Barker and Andrew J.
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