Richmond Dairy Company - Richmond, Virginia - Converted Factories on Waymarking.com

Dairymen J.O. Scott, A.L. Scott and T.L. Blanton started the company in 1890, and the 1914 building was designed by the architecture firm Carneal & Johnston.

Early on, the company found success in supplying dairy products to Richmonders as fresh milk products required daily delivery, pre-refrigerator.
The milk jug itself, replicated in the building’s structure, represented a vital part in the history of the dairy business. Introduced in the U.S. for the first time in the late 1870s, the sealed and sterilized glass bottle was a way to maintain and guarantee the freshness of milk versus the earlier less-hygienic method of delivering milk from a pail.

Ironically, decades later the glass milk bottle also became a burden. Not only were they heavy and difficult to deliver, they broke easily and the safety of recycling them was questioned.

In the 1930s, an early form of home-refrigeration arose when Dupont began to mass produce Freon-12. By the 1950s, the refrigerator had become a standard in the American home.

With the new developments, the daily dairy delivery faded into ancient history and with it, businesses like Richmond Dairy Co. did too.

For many years after the company closed, the building was in a state of ruin. For some time, the crumbling rooms inside the 40 foot milk bottles were even used as a practice space for Gwar.

Today, the since renovated building contains rental apartments. - description taken from the Richmond Times-Dispatch

Address:: 201 West Marshall Street Richmond, Virginia United States of America 23220 Year built: 1914 Year converted: 2016 Web page: [Web Link]

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