Showers Brothers Furniture Company

“A history of Bloomington itself, telling the story of how an industry helped drive the development of one of the Midwest’s most vital university towns.”— Bloom When the Showers family arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, the railroad had only recently come to town and a modest university was struggling to survive. Having spent the prior 18 years moving from place to place, the family decided to settle down and invest its modest resources to start a furniture company. The business proved to be extre