The Starr Piano Company began operations on this site in the 1870's and gained an international reputation for Starr pianos, phonographs, and its recording division, Gennett Records. The building with the Gennett Records parrot logo painted on the south wall is the last of an enormous network of factory buildings once located here along the Whitewater River. It was once used for the manufacture of player piano mechanisms, in addition to several other uses through the company's history. Today the company is best remembered for Gennett Records and the important contributions Gennett made to early jazz, country, blues, and gospel music.