Beet Sugar Factory - Glendale AZ
N 33° 32.245 W 112° 10.252
12S E 391287 N 3711481
In 1903, Glendale founder, W.J. Murphy, helped to organize the Arizona Sugar Company to raise sugar beets for processing in a Glendale factory. The factory was built between 1903 and 1906.
Waymark Code: WMH5A9
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2013
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"The Arizona Republican, on January 5, 1906, wrote an extensive article on all phases of construction and the description given of the buildings sizes shows what an extensive undertaking the factory was:
The steel structure of the main building is now fully completed. It is five stories high in one part and three stories in another. Built on solid concrete foundations it gives every appearance of standing for ages. This building is 293 by 67 feet and is the largest of the group. The foundations for the other buildings are well under way. There is a boiler house 160 by 52 feet; a lime kiln house 80 by 52 feet; a repair shop 60 by 52 feet, and a smoke stack with a base measuring 30 by 30 feet. When complete this stack will be 165 feet in height and the material a patent brick.
In addition to these buildings named there will be a sugar warehouse of the dimensions 120 by 67 feet and the immense beet sheds 400 by 100. The office building built apart from the other structures will be of modern construction, and although small will be a handsome structure.
These buildings were seen by most people as the building of Glendale and to be architecturally an attraction for the town.11 By the end of July 1906, construction was finished, processing machinery was in place, beets had been shipped from all parts of the valley and stored in storage sheds; operations were ready to begin. The factory was ready, but the water needed was not available."
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