118 years of Creating for Builders, Designers, and Framemakers
In 1888, PB&H Moulding Company was founded by Francis Hall, George Papworth, and Phillip Burkhart. Their goal was to manufacture quality, custom-designed wood moulding for the art and architectural markets. The firm has been operated in Syracuse, New York, by four generations of the Hall family, proudly creating quality moulding for select use by discriminating designers, builders, and frame makers.

The past three decades have been marked by growth and change. In 1984 the firm introduced THE PB&H LINE – a collection of hand-finished stocked picture frame mouldings available for prompt shipment. A nation-wide distributor network has been established, providing corner samples, chops and small length requests to framers. (Refer to the attached Distributor list.) Currently this LINE contains over 200 mouldings in gold and silver metal leaf, stains, lacquers, and specialty finishes. In addition, PB&H continues to custom manufacture based on profile drawing or sample.      

In 2000, PB&H created a stocked collection of raw wood picture frame profiles available in length, chop and join, with no minimum order. These 40 unfinished mouldings are designed for closed corner applications and unique finishes. In addition, PB&H custom manufacturers raw moulding, based on profile drawing or sample. 

 Concurrent with this long history of manufacturing picture frame mouldings, PB&H has been providing the building and cabinet-manufacture industry with custom trim and composite mouldings.  We currently mill for kitchen cabinet-makers, provide trim for the furniture industry, along with the manufacture of custom designs and reproductions for homebuilders. Of particular note, PB&H has embossing capacities that enable the firm to provide unique embossed and integrated detail that are otherwise unavailable in the industry. The timetable for this work is short: most mouldings, once consigned, can be milled in less than two weeks.   

PB&H is proud to be an American firm manufacturing entirely in the United States, committed to meeting the challenges of American design trends in an environmentally responsible manner. In 1996, the firm received an OSHA commendation and participates in EPA emission reduction programs. PB&H recycles all non-usable wood through a program of landscape mulch, shavings for animal bedding and bundling strips for kindling.