Office Resources, Inc. is a privately owned Kentucky Corporation, which was formed in July 1993 by the merger of O'Connor & Raque (established in 1945) and Bosco/Intecon (established in 1966).

O'Connor & Raque began as a small retail office supply store at 416 West Jefferson Street. For the next 20 years the founders grew the business by adding office furniture to the company's product offering and adding commercial sales people to make direct calls on the customers.

Founded in 1966, Business Office Supply Company, Inc. originally operated as a general line office supply and furniture dealership, which became familiar by the name "BOSCO". The dealership began representing Steelcase in 1967. Because of the fast-paced growth of the large corporations, the growing complexity of the products they were selling, and the importance of trained specialists to serve customers, the company divided into two divisions in 1978: INTECON (offering contract furniture and total office environment services) and BOSCO (a commercial stationer).

In 1995 ORI sold the office supplies division to Boise Cascade Office Products, allowing ORI to concentrate on furniture and services for the work environment.

Currently, ORI has further evolved into four specialties or value propositions. Each value proposition provides unique solutions for specific customers. The four specialties are ORI Contract, ORI Integrated Interiors, Office Furniture USA & the ORI Office Furniture Clearance Center.

 

About our building
Today ORI is located in the historic Broadway Theater Building at 816 East Broadway in Louisville. The building was designed by the local architectural firm of Joseph & Joseph and constructed in 1914-1915. The building opened in May of 1915 with a seating capacity of 800 and was reported to have acoustics as perfect as any building of its kind.

Live performances were featured from its very beginning and featured stars such as John Barrymore. From 1930 until 1959 the Broadway Theater building operated as a popular movie house.

In 1960 the Catholic Theater Guild purchased the building for $25,000. The Guild used the building for amateur productions and had a vision to restore the ornate auditorium and stage to its original grandeur. But it was not to happen and the Guild held it's last performance on February 14, 1970.

Shortly thereafter, the old building became the Mad Hatter's Nightclub and featured several prominent rock and roll bands of the seventies-Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Santana among them. Later in the 1970's Charles Beckham ran for congress and used the theater as his campaign offices.

By the early 1980's the building had been unoccupied for several years and was in poor condition. On January 1, 1985 ORI (then known as Business Office Supply Company) purchased the Broadway Theater. Later that year the building became the office supply and budget furniture division of the company.

In 1995 after the supply division was sold, the ORI Contract division moved into the building. Being in business to provide the most advanced working environments to our customers, it was apparent the building needed a facelift. After a transformation that took nearly a year, the new ORI showroom was finished in December of 2000. A gala open house was held and several hundred people attended "The Broadway Premier of Cool Spaces, An ORI Production."

Today the building is on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a dramatic backdrop for promoting our new value propositions while showing a broad range of work settings. We recently installed the Steelcase Feature Stage, which is updated quarterly with the latest Steelcase architecture, furniture and technology products.

Whether you are looking for interior solutions or just want to stop by to see the building you are welcome to come in for a visit!