It’s big — five stories high — made of hand packed bricks from a nearby quarry. The roof leaks in spots and the lower windows are boarded up. A padlock keeps most people out, but a few critters have traipsed across the floor, which has huge chunks missing in several places.
It once was a busy industrial building; it now sits empty, housing old memories dating back to 1906, and odd pieces of kitchen equipment brought in recently to store for a later use.
Kathleen Noon, Phoenix Public Library historian, wrote the following in a paper presented at the 2000 Arizona History Convention.
“The Arizona Republican, on Jan. 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:
