Old IBM Headquarters Endicott, New York

Endicott is where IBM started out a hundred years ago, when the Tabulating Machine Company joined the newly consolidated Computer-Tabulating-Recording-Company, making things like meat slicers, scales, and employee time recorders. The company changed its name to IBM in 1933, and moved its headquarters to New York City, then to suburban Armonk, New York, in the 1960s, where it remains today. The old IBM headquarters in Endicott is in the heart of town, surrounded by the sprawling old plant, which once had a few thousand employees. Much of it is now taken over by redevelopment efforts, led by the Huron Company. The British defense company BAE occupies several large former IBM manufacturing buildings.