Graybar Electric Company, Inc. is an American wholesale electrical, communications and data networking products distribution business, which also supplies related supply-chain management and logistics services. Based in Clayton, Missouri, the employee-owned corporation is included on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations.
Headquarters at the Graybar Building in Clayton, Missouri
Chicago, Illinois building which housed the shops and offices of Gray & Barton in the early 1870s
Cover of the first Graybar merchandizing catalog for the years 1926/1927, after division from Western Electric Company
Graybar president Albert L. Salt (left) presents $3 million check to Western Electric president Edgar S. Bloom, as Graybar employees’ down payment toward the purchase of their company in 1929.
Clayton is a city in and the county seat of St. Louis County, Missouri, and borders the independent city of St. Louis. The population was 17,355 at the 2020 census. Organized in 1877, the city was named after Ralph Clayton, a former slave owner, who donated the land for the St. Louis County courthouse.
Clayton high-rises seen from the Moorlands
View of Clayton skyline in 2018
Central Presbyterian Church in the Davis Place neighborhood
A Blue Line MetroLink train passing through downtown Clayton
