Edward Payson Baird (1860-1922) manufactured wall clocks in a Plattsburgh factory from 1890 to 1896.  It was located at what was addressed as 18 Bridge Street, using waterpower from the adjacent Saranac River.  The site of the building, depicted on the Fausel 1899 birds-eye view of Plattsburgh, is now occupied by Highway Oil gas station.  Though most of Baird’s production was advertising clocks, with fronts of molded papier mache, this example is of all wood with no advertising.  Baird, who worked as a teen for the Seth Thomas Clock Company in Walcott, Connecticut, used Seth Thomas works for all his Plattsburgh-made clocks.

In 1975 Plattsburgh’s Dr. Leonard Schiff and his son Joseph wrote a book about Baird and his clocks, copies of which can be read in Plattsburgh libraries. This particular clock once hung on the walls of Plattsburgh Public Library.