title: Merit Underwear Company
text: # Merit Underwear Company
  
  The Merit Underwear Company is an historic, American factory building that is located in Shoemakersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA.
  
  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
  
  ## History and architectural features
  
  Built in 1916, this historic structure is a two-story, rectangular, brick building measuring 40 by 100 feet (12 by 30 m). It was added to the front of an earlier wood-frame building, which was later replaced with a two-story, irregularly-shaped brick structure that was erected in 1928. A two-story, brick addition was built in 1921. The addition measures fifty-two feet by seventy-one feet. The building was occupied by garment manufacturers into the 1990s.
  
  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
  
  