Welcome to Goodman Glass Company, the oldest glass company on the Peninsula. Founded in 1906, our roots were retail and wholesale hardware, glass, and mirrors. Today, we are a full service glass company with a shop to repair and fabricate commercial and residential doors and windows, sell and install shower enclosures, replacement windows and storm doors. Our company is in the service business. Our goal is to provide prompt, efficient, and courteous service at a fair price.
C.L. Goodman |
R. Winston Harris |
Philip H. Bray |
Vince Behm |
Our company was established in 1906 by C.L. Goodman and has celebrated over 100 years of continuous service. At that time, Goodman Hardware Co. was located on 
Jefferson Avenue in Newport News. From 1923 until 1952, the store was under the ownership of R. Winston Harris, nephew of Mr. Goodman. From 1952 until 1980, Philip H. Bray and Katherine Bray, Mr. Harris’ daughter, owned the business. Three generations of Goodman’s proudly served the citizen of the Virginia peninsula for almost 75 years!
Vince Behm, its present owner, purchased the business from the Bray’s in 1980. In 2011, after years in construction, Vince’s oldest son, Tripp, came into the business and currently runs the commercial side. Tripp brought with him years of construction experience ranging from work in the field, job costing, estimating and project management. Just like the three generations of Goodman descendants, now two generations of Behm’s serve the citizens of Hampton Roads, VA.
Goodman Hardware Company was originally located in the 25th block of Jefferson Ave in Newport News, VA. Goodman’s primary business was general hardware, builder’s hardware, paints, glass and mirrors. In the late 50’s, then owner, Philip Bray, was convinced that Mercury Blvd would become the retail center of the Virginia Peninsula. So in 1960, Goodman Hardware moved to a modern, 12,000 sq. ft. facility located 3401 W. Mercury Blvd. This connector road between Hampton and Newport News was still much undeveloped and Goodman was just the second business to locate there. Soon after, West Mercury Blvd was bustling with commercial development and was the site for the first Mall on the peninsula, the Coliseum and many shops and retail stores. In 1999, then owner Vince Behm, decided that the growing business needed more room. So he sold the corner location that Goodman had occupied for almost 40 years and moved the commercial and residential operation into a 16,000 sq. ft. facility just two doors east of it original location. The retail/wholesale portion move to a 5000 sq. ft. facility on Aberdeen Road. In 2005, this portion of the business was closed, celebrating almost 100 years in the hardware business.
Today, Goodman Glass Company is only in the glass business and can truly furnish all of your glass needs. Our commercial division does new construction and repair of storefronts, windows and doors with 24 hour emergency board up service available. Keeping customers and employees safe at work is a large portion of our business. Our customers include individual business owners, industrial accounts and government.
Our residential glass division installs new replacement windows and doors in homes and apartments. Need a broken window or door glass replaced? How about torn of lost screens? No problem, give us a call, quotes are free. Shower enclosures are a specialty of Goodman’s. We can install aluminum framed shower enclosures as well as modern heavy glass enclosures. We sell and install only quality products with great guarantees.
We pride ourselves on the fact the Goodman has one of the highest customer satisfaction ratings. We accomplish this by using only our employees, no subcontractors, to install the products that we sell. All of our employees must pass criminal background checks and drug & alcohol tests. How many of our competitors can say that!
Guaranteed by the most reliable name in Hampton Roads...
GOODMAN!