Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company, Shed, 851 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Significance: The "little green shed" survives as the oldest structure associated with aviation pioneers Ammon H. Kreider and Lewis E. Reisner, who formed the Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company (KRA) in 1926, a year after Reisner moved the former Middlekauf shoe shop to this location. It was at this shed that Kreider and Reisner designed and built the Midget and Challenger airplanes. After winning several national air races, KRA built a reputation for innovative, well-built, affordable sport planes, establishing Hagerstown as an important center of the aviation industry. The shed remained in service even after Kreider-Reisner merged with aviation industrialist Sherman Fairchild and built a modern plan, Fairchild No. 1, right behind it in 1929. Fairchild Corporation grew into a major defense supplier in World War II and ultimately went bankrupt in the 1980s, but the shed survived as a symbol of the company's humble beginnings. A team of volunteers disassembled the shed and stored it in the building that replaced it, Fairchild No. 1, in the winter of 2006, in hopes of resurrecting it in the future Hagerstown Aviation Museum.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1075
Survey number: HAER MD-137-A
Building/structure dates: ca. 1887 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1943 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 2006 Demolished