Know Your Neighborhood:  Shane's Candy, 110 Market St

Shane Confectionery is a candy shop and candy producer, located at 110 Market Street.  Currently owned by the Berley brothers, it is considered the longest-running confectionery business in the U.S.  
Since 1863, candy and candy-making materials have been made or sold on the premises at 110 Market Street (originally known as the High Street).  The location was part of an active candy-making industry that grew up around the sugar trade. In 1910, Philadelphia was home to as many as 1,200 confectioneries.

Samuel L. Herring opened a wholesale confectionery supply business at 112 Market in the 1850s, expanding to 110 Market Street in 1863.  After the Civil War, his son Benjamin took over the business. He eventually went into partnership with one of his father's employees, confectioner Daniel S. Dengler. The partners sold wholesale confectionery goods at 110 Market until Benjamin Herring died. Daniel S. Dengler and his son, Frank Dengler, continued to operate the business until 1899, when they sold the building to William T. Wescott.  In 1910, Wescott moved to New Jersey, selling the business to Edward R. Shane.  The Shane family operated the location as a retail business for the next 99 years.

In 2010, the business was bought by brothers Ryan and Eric Berley. They chose to retain the "Shane Confectionery" name. They have restored the building and its contents, and use restored original machinery and traditional recipes to make many of the sweets they sell.

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