The origin of the museum

Patrick Carr started the Elevator Historical Society and Elevator Museum in New York in 2011. Steve Comley, a lifelong part of the elevator industry, was a Director of the Elevator Historical Society with Patrick from 2013 -2016. Sadly Patrick closed the museum due to lack of support and funding. Steve asked to have all his family's artifacts back and during the summer of 2017 he made several trips back and forth to New York, bringing artifacts back to the meeting room of Boston IUEC (International Union of Elevator Constructors) Local#4 - who have been part of IUEC since February 1899! Steve purchased display cases and put the items on show in Boston. Throughout the next two years he acquired many more items from IUEC members from around the country, Boston Local#4 members and Patrick. In 2018 Steve was asked to get the artifacts out of the meeting room because the collection was getting too big. It has never been a museum open to the public, so Steve and his supporters knew they had to leave if they were to ever get outside support.