Reymer Brothers Candy Factory

Reymer Brothers Candy Factory
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1425 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°26′16″N 79°59′8″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1906
Architect	Charles Bickel
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	97000514
Added to NRHP	May 30, 1997

The Reymer Brothers Candy Factory (also known as the Forbes Pride Building, or Forbes Med-Tech Center) is located in the Bluff neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1906, it was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

History and architectural features

Reymer and Anderson was one of the first confectionaries in Pittsburgh; it boomed during the American Civil War when people sent candy to soldiers, and prospered during the last half of the nineteenth century as Phillip Reymer's sons, Jacob and Harmer, took over the business.

By 1906, when the new factory was built, the Reymer family had left the business but their name lived on. In 1908, the firm claimed that it was "one of the largest confectionery houses in the world," and that it had 5,000 vendors in the Pittsburgh area.

The firm ran five teahouses in Pittsburgh, which may have contributed to a perception that the firm made quality products but was unprofitable. An uncarbonated soft drink, "Lemon Blennd," accounted for seventy percent of its sales in 1959. The company was taken over in 1959 by a competitor, Dimling's, which went out of business in 1969.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.