Baldwin-manufactured pianos also won top awards at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the 1914 Anglo-American Exposition. The company won its first major award in 1900, when their model 112 won the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, the first American manufactured piano to win such an award. Wulsin ultimately purchased Baldwin's estate and continued the company's shift from retail to manufacturing.
Baldwin died in 1899 and left the vast majority of his estate to fund missionary causes.
