Keiley & Sullivan Brewing
Co.: 1873-1877
Keiley Bros., Eagle Brewing Co.: 1877-1888
Benjamen Keiley, Eagle Brewing Co.: 1888-1899
Eagle
Brewing Co.: 1899-1920
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The Eagle Brewing Company operated in Providence, Rhode Island for nearly fifty
years. It began life as the Keily and Sullivan Brewery in 1873.
Bartholomew Keily was originally a Providence bottler
who ran his business at the rear of 154 Pine Street, on the corner of Richmond Street. He had taken over the P. Corbett Bottling
Plant in 1872 which bottled a wide variety of sodas. Keily's brother, Owen, and Eugene Sullivan joined
the business in 1873 and formed the Keily and Sullivan Brewery.
The Eagle Brewing Company produced Eagle Red
Star Ale and Lager Beer. The Brewery was located at the junction of West Exchange, Ames, Bruce and McAvoy streets in
Providence, a section just north of Federal Hill now occupied by the either Route 6 or the embankments which surround it.
Around 1895, The Simon Levin & Sons Co. became wholesalers for the Eagle Brewing Company. They were located
at 208 Chalkstone Blvd. in Providence. They later held offices at 150 Charles Street when the company became
incorporated with Morris Levin in 1900. By 1902, the company was known as the Levin Bros. They would go out of business in
1913.
The Eagle Brewing Company had an annual capacity of 150,000 barrels at the turn of the 20th century.
Like many other breweries of it's kind, it was not able to survive with the enactment of prohibition in 1920.
