RJ Murray Co., Inc.

General information

Now in its third generation, family-owned RJ Murray Company, Inc. was the first Carrier distributor – not just here in the Northeast - but in the world.

Like many entrepreneurs in the Depression era, founder Richard Murray, Sr., started out in 1929 with $500 in his pocket, and a desire to bring refrigeration and air conditioning to the homes and industries in the Northeast.

Dr. Willis Carrier, the man credited with inventing mechanical air conditioning, took notice of Murray’s success during those hard economic times and in 1933 encouraged Murray to join a young Carrier Air Conditioning Company.

As business expanded rapidly in the Northeast, Carrier asked the RJ Murray Company to form a distributorship in which they would franchise dealers and train them to take over the sales and installation of air conditioning equipment.

Today, as Carrier’s oldest operating distributor, we support 500+ dealers, contractors, government, and industrial accounts from a modern, 50,000-square-foot distribution facility in Latham, New York. We also have a branch in Burlington, Vermont.

Our dealers encompass a territory stretching from the Canadian border to Sullivan and Orange counties in southern New York State, the entire state of Vermont, and western Massachusetts.

Every one of our dealers maintains a full staff of factory trained service and installation technicians. And with each new customer, they continue to build on their reputation for quality workmanship and trust.