We're Celebrating our 5th Birthday

Thanks to You Pittsburgh, We’re Celebrating Our Happy 5^th Birthday…Sweet! In the mid-1880s, on the current site of Priory Fine Pastries, a teenage Irish immigrant, David Lytle Clark launched the D.L. Clark Candy Company with $1,000 in capital.
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By 1890, his manufacturing had outgrown this North Side location and he relocated to McKeesport where his family had a dairy.
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During its peak, the Clark Candy Company manufactured daily nearly 2 million Clark Bars,  6 million sticks of gum and more than 150 products including its infamous five cent candy bar.
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Its signature Clark bar was developed in 1917 to meet the demand of U.S. soldiers for candy in World War I. At his death in 1939, David L. Clark left $1.2 million dollars to eleven area hospitals, including our neighbor Allegheny General.
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Not since Mr. Clark left this East Ohio location in 1890 had this property been used for manufacturing.  In 2004, our family brought that back with our own sweet touch – the opening of Priory Fine Pastries. Over the past five years, we’re proud to say we’ve worked hard to keep the innovative, fun, tasty and charitable ways going on in the spirit of D.L. Clark and our own ancestors. Thank you for your support and friendship over the past five years.
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Here’s to many more great years of creating sweet memories with you,
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Mary Ann, Ed, Suzanne and John

The Graf Family
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P.S.: Click here to read more about Priory Fine Pastries’ connection to the world famous confectioner D.L. Clark.