Michigan Condensed Milk Factory

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Michigan Condensed Milk Factory
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Condensed Milk Factory, c 1913
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Location320 W. Broadway St., Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Coordinates 43°36′17″N84°46′54″W / 43.60472°N 84.78167°W / 43.60472; -84.78167 Coordinates: 43°36′17″N84°46′54″W / 43.60472°N 84.78167°W / 43.60472; -84.78167
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1907 (1907)
Built byHenry Herring, D.C. Babcock
ArchitectWilliam D. Kyser
Architectural style Italianate
NRHP reference # 83000853 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 7, 1983

The Michigan Condensed Milk Factory, also known as the Borden Creamery, is a factory building located at 320 West Broadway Street in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

Mount Pleasant, Michigan City in Michigan, United States

Mount Pleasant is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located in Central Michigan, the city is the county seat of Isabella County, The population was 26,016 as of the 2010 census.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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History

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Samuel Whaley Hopkins

Samuel Whaley Hopkins was born in 1845 in Exeter, Rhode Island, the youngest child of Samuel and Freelove Burlingame Hopkins. [2] At age 11, his family moved to Connecticut, where Hopkins attended school. At age 16, he taught school, then moved to Charleston, South Carolina and then Cleveland, Ohio to attend school. He graduated from Union Business College in 1865, and spent the next few years teaching, working in retail, and studying law. [2] In 1870, he entered the University of Michigan Law School, [2] from which he graduated in 1872. [3] After graduation, he took up law practice in Mount Pleasant, later serving as Isabella County prosecutor and representing the area in the state legislature. [3]

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In 1906, seeing a need for a milk factory in Mt. Pleasant, Hopkins negotiated with the Ann Arbor railway and the Michigan Condensed Milk Factory (owned by the Borden family) to locate a milk factory on a plot of land owned by the railroad. Hopkins successfully completed negotiations, and Borden constructed this creamery, designed by William D. Kyser, Superintendent of the Borden Creamery in Fairport, New York in Mount Pleasant. The building was completed in 1908 and operated as a creamery until 1960. [3]

Borden (company) American producer of food and beverage products, consumer products, and industrial products

Borden, Inc., was an American producer of food and beverage products, consumer products, and industrial products. At one time, the company was the largest U.S. producer of dairy and pasta products. Its food division, Borden Foods, was based in Columbus, Ohio, and focused primarily on pasta and pasta sauces, bakery products, snacks, processed cheese, jams and jellies, and ice cream. It was best known for its Borden Ice Cream, Meadow Gold milk, Creamette pasta, and Borden Condensed Milk brands. Its consumer products and industrial segment marketed wallpaper, adhesives, plastics and resins. By 1993, sales of food products accounted for 67 percent of its revenues. It was also known for its Elmer's Glue and Krazy Glue.

Fairport, New York Village in New York, United States

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After the closure of the creamery, the building was sold to Burton Bader in 1965. [4] Bader used it primarily for storage, and sold it in 1982. The building remained vacant, and went through a series of owners and proposed redevelopment attempts, until it was acquired by the city in 2002. [4] In 2003, Central Michigan Developers, LLC purchased the building and began rehabilitation. [5] The building was completed in 2009, and now houses the offices of the City of Mount Pleasant. [5]

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Present Day Building-City of Mount Pleasant Offices

Description

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Condensed Milk Factory, c 1908

The Michigan Condensed Milk Factory is a rectangular red brick two-story Commercial Italianate structure with a low, gable roof sitting on a concrete block foundation pad. [3] All four facades have paired, four-over-four double hung sash windows in each bay on each story, surrounded by brick piers. The windows are in bowed arches formed by triple rows of header brick, and corbeled rows of stretcher brick form a cornice line above. The long gable roof supports eight wood cupolas with "witches cap" roofs and knobbed spires. The interior of the creamery has two levels of open factory space. [3]

Italianate architecture 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 Chapman Brothers (1884), Portrait and Biographical Album of Isabella County, Mich, Chapman brothers, pp. 425–427
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Michigan Condensed Milk Factory". Michigan State Housing Development Authority: Historic Sites Online. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  4. 1 2 "History of Ownership and Development Efforts: Mt. Pleasant Condensed Milk Factory (Borden Building)" (PDF). JE Johnson Co. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Borden Creamery – Historic Preservation Tax Credits" (PDF). Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved October 12, 2013.
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