Fostoria Glass

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The Fostoria Glassworks began in Fostoria, Ohio on Dec. 15, 1887, near the Railroad at South Vine Street. When resources declined at that site, the company moved, in 1891, to Moundsville, West Virginia.

By that date Fostoria developed a furnace able to fire 14 pieces of glass at a time. It advertised that it manufactured tableware, colognes, stationers’ glassware and candelabra. By the 1920s Fostoria added five furnaces and manufactured stemware, container glass and decorative lamps.

Surviving the Great Depression was helped by producing milk glass and inexpensive glass known as depression wares. Its depression wares included patterns named Alexis, American, Baroque, Brocade, Colony, Fairfax, Fostoria Stems and Stems, Fuchsia, Glacier, Hermitage, June, Kashmir, Lafayette, Narcissus, Navarre, New Garland, Pioneer, Priscilla, Rogene, Royal, Seville, Sun Ray, Trojan, Versailles, Vesper, and Woodland. This was clearly an inventive and productive company.

By the 1950s Fostoria was producing more than 8 million pieces of glass and crystal. The company published its own consumer magazine “Creating with Crystal” during this period. U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria. By 1983, Fostoria was sold to Lancaster Colony Corportion in Columbus, Ohio. Three years later, that corporation closed the factory and sold the remaining stock to customers directly.

After the factory closing, Lancaster Colony contracted with Dalzell Viking Glass Company of New Mnartinsville, West Virginia to continue manufacturing some of Fostoria’s most popular patterns, including the pattern for American. The L.E. Smith Glass Company of Mount Pleasant, PA. bought the American molds thereafter. In 1990 the Fostoria Glass Society bought the Anna B. Smith House of Moundsville and turned it into a Fostoria Museum.

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