Andersen Corporation

Andersen Corporation was founded in 1903 as the Andersen Lumber Company by Danish immigrant Hans Jacob Andersen and his family at Hudson, Wisconsin. In 1929 the name of the firm was changed to Andersen Frame Company and in 1937 to Andersen Corporation.

The company began making window frames at its small Hudson plant in mid-1904. In 1905 Hans introduced an innovative two-bundle method of designing and shipping unassembled window frames. Eleven sets of horizontal parts were manufactured in different lengths and another eleven sets of vertical parts were made in different lengths, that in various combinations enabled the company to provide window frames in 121 sizes that (it was said) could be assembled by a carpenter in fewer than ten minutes. The company moved across the St. Croix River to South Stillwater, Minnesota in 1913, where land was available and a larger manufacturing plant was built on a site formerly occupied by a sawmill. South Stillwater's name was changed to Bayport in 1922.

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