The George H Phillips and Company was organized in Troy, NY in 1868. The next year the company name was changed to the Phillips & Clark Stove Company to acknowledge the addition of Phillip’s son-in-law, Walter Clark who had joined the firm’s management staff. A threatened strike in Troy in 1885 led the company to relocate to seven acres of land on the east side of Evans St, between the canal and the NY Central rail lines in Geneva. The workforce more than doubled between 1892 and 1902 when 450 employees were manufacturing $300,000 worth of stoves. The company manufactured a wide variety of stoves, both parlor and cook stoves.

In 1924, the company changed its name again to Andes Range & Furnace Corporation in recognition of the popularity of its line of Andes stoves which had been produced since its establishment. Like other Geneva companies, they temporarily ceased the manufacturing of its own product line to help with the war effort during the 1940s, producing hand grenades, parts for steam boilers, and wooden mess tables for the servicemen at Sampson Naval Base. By this time they had also assumed control of the Summit Foundry Corporation. In 1949 the company retooled to produce more modern stoves.

A group of New York City investors bought out the company in 1951 and the next year the cutler manufacturer, Geneva Forge, bought the site and its buildings, sold the equipment at auction, and used what it could for warehouse space. In 1959, the Andes buildings yielded to the arterial highway.