In April 1924, a new one-story factory was completed in the Hampden section of Baltimore. The factory at 800 Wyman Park Driveway was a state of the art building for making silver. Business boomed and construction of a second floor was completed in 1929. This occurred just in time for the crash of the stock market and the Great Depression. Gideon Stieff kept the factory staffed despite the economic downturn, knowing that one day when business improved, those employees would be needed again. Silversmiths swept floors, painted walls, and whatever else could be done to keep them occupied, and quickly dispatching any orders that came in. Some of the finest works were those made in the 1930s, as the silversmiths took even greater care and skill with the silver.