Most of Henredon's flagship wood furniture plant, closed in late 2007, has been torn down to make way for a new Walmart Supercenter.

For those who want to get a better handle on what became of the once illustrious U.S. furniture industry, I strongly recommend reading, "The Furniture Wars: How America Lost a Fifty Billion Dollar Industry." In it, author Michael Dugan, former president and CEO of Henredon Industries, serves up an insider's account of one failed attempt after another by "outsiders" to rule the roost.