Charles Brox House

This is the house of Charles Brox, the German-born glassmaker, for whom Elks-Brox Park is named. In 1866, Brox and William Pountney established a glass business nearby at Hamilton and Canal Streets. In 1871, he and Wade Buckley established the Orange County Flint Glass Works (now the site of Gillinder Glass) or Erie Street. Brox died at his home on Buckley Street in the West End in 1924 and is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery. After his death, in 1932, his sister-in-law, Sarah Belle Thorne made a generous donation in his honor, which resulted in Elks Park being conveyed to the city and renamed Elk-Brox Park.