During my visit to Glendale on Friday, I learned that the giant brick building at 51st and Glendale avenues is an old sugar beet factory. W.J. Murphy organized the Arizona Sugar Company to raise sugar beets and built this factory in 1906 to process them. The factory closed in 1913. Since, the building has served as a production facility for Squirt soda concentrate and soy sauce, but has remained vacant since 1986. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
And it is one of our most endangered historic properties.
ReplyDeleteIt is one of our most endangered historic properties, but it has new owners and, fingers crossed, they will restore it...and maybe even open it up for tours, events, etc.
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