The firm has proven beyond a doubt that the "square dealing" policy, of George
W. Lainhart and George W Potter, is a success.
The firm has consolidated it's West Palm Beach operation into one location at 715 25th Street. Here are located extensive yards and the sales office. Another convenient location is in Jupiter at 100 North Old Dixie Highway.
At Lainhart & Potter service is still the keynote, as it was when the first wagon load of lumber was purchased, from the original yard, a year before West Palm Beach was incorporated into a municipality.
Back in those days, Henry M Flagler began buying land for the development of Palm Beach (at $1,000 per acre) and the Lainhart & Potter firm supplied the lumber.
Both West Palm Beach and Lainhart & Potter have come a long way since then. But no business firm can better the enviable record of satisfied customers, rightly enjoyed by Lainhart & Potter.
When the company celebrated its' 60th anniversary, Spencer Lainhart, President of the firm at that time, said :
"When George W Lainhart and George W Potter opened their lumber yard 60 years ago, West Palm Beach hardly existed. Juno was the county seat of Dade County. The railroad was one year away from being an actuality. Yet, these were the men with faith.
West Palm was to grow and by founding a business, they, like so many other pioneers, were helping the fledgling community take shape.
The two men founded the lumber yard to supply the area, but more important was the idea of giving the customer a fair deal - quality materials at a fair price.
This thought brought into being the Lainhart & Potter slogan 'Building Materials for Particular Builders.'
Through the years as the lumber yard progressed the slogan was always in mind. Today, although the two pioneer founders are no longer alive, we who have succeeded them make our pledge anew to maintain the principles of fair dealing, and placing the interests of the community first in our consideration.
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Service to the customer is the cornerstone on which Lainhart & Potter based its' building materials business when it was founded in 1893.