The Shaneybrook Legacy

Shaneybrook began its humble beginnigs in June of 1964 when C. Ed Shaneybrook, III launched Shaneybrook Oriental Rugs as the surprising age of only 16 years.

Ed Shaneybrook had found a facination with rugs since his childhood. He purchased his first rug at an auction about 15 miles from his parents home. He fell in love with the rug, brought it home on the local bus and walked the additional 3 miles home with the rug on his shoulder. Upon entering the family farm house in Mt. Washington, Maryland, his mother couldn't believe he bought an old dirty rug in and put it on the floor. That Malayer oriental remains in our collection to this very day.

As Shaneybrook worked through his later teen years and early twenties at an Electrolux Vacuum dealership and repair shop in Baltimore where he worked as a repairman and then supervistor, Shaneybrook developed what would become long lasting relationships with local clients that recognized his genuine love for rugs play out in extraordinary workmanship and an unparalled level of quality care.

During the next ten years, he dovetailed his love of higher quality antiques by opening his own shop running the antiquities side-by-side with the rugs. He would work for Kleenize (rug and carpet cleaner) and then Hamden Cleaners, where he eventually took over most of the daily operations. While continuing his own business buying and selling on the side, Shaneybrook learned every detail of the cleaning and repair business, good and bad. With these experiences under his belt and his desire to elevate the quality of care beyond the conduct of these commericial establishments, Shaneybrook decided to step out completely on his own.

In 1974, Shaneybrook re-settled at the Weisburg Inn in Parkton, Maryland where his love of history and antiques blossomed as he worked to establish a nationally recognized museum centered around the Circa 1800 Inn. He would begin a roller coaster adventure that raised him to a community leader in the representation of local residents in Taxpayers United, the Weisburg Community Association as well as innumerable projects in local Baltimore County to help protect local farm land and historic endeavors.

In 1991, Henry (Hank) Bahne, joined the Shaneybrook business team as one of many of the laborers. Bahne learned the business from the very bottom up. Bahne worked his way through college at York College of Pennsylvania while working full time at Shaneybrooks, graduating with a Masters in Communications and Photography. He would add a unique set of talents to the business as he launched Shaneybrook.com in 1996, the business' first web site, expanding the mid-atlantic business to the nation and abroad.

Shaneybrook and Bahne became inseparable as Bahne not only became a business partner, but Shaneybrook became the father Bahne never had. Their strength and fortitude would flourish as they shouldered the business together against many private struggles evolving at the Weisburg Inn.

In the late 1990s, Shaneybrook and Bahne began a major expansion of the business. Re-establishing the half century plus extinct Whittall Anglo-Persian wilton rug business, Shaneybrook and Bahne purchased and moved the wilton rug weaving Mandaltepper factory from Mandal, Norway and later, axminster looms of Ins & Outs Carpet from Kidderminster, England.

As the millennium passed and the new Shaneybrook rug and carpet mills were completed, Shaneybrook abandoned his former passions at the Inn. After a near fatal assault, Shaneybrook was forced to leave his home of over 30 years for his safety. He took his business with him and continued with Bahne faithfully at his side. Unfortunately, Shaneybrook never fully recovered, succumbing to complications in the summer of 2008.

Bahne, having taken over the majority of company operations years before, continues the traditions of the company he learned from Ed Shaneybrook.

In 2009, Shaneybrook re-established itself in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, resuming its normal operations, once again offering all its traditional services. Meanwhile, the building of the new Shaneybrook wilton and axminster weaving mills is underway.

The Shaneybrook name continues as a testament to its founder and a business that continues to set itself apart and above the rest of the industry with a steadfast and unparalleled level of quality, workmanship and service.

Shaneybrook remains one of the most acknowledged and respected names in the care and service industry by private clients, museums and institutions throughout the United States and the world.