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Ward Baking Company Building
The Ward Baking Company Building was an industrial facility in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York. It was constructed in 1911 by George S. Ward as a baking plant for the Ward Bread Company, which later became the Continental Baking Company.
According to the Ward Baking Company, the Ward Building housed the first "sanitary and scientific bakery in America." The building housed hundreds of workers who produced 250,000 loaves of bread per day.
It was demolished in 2007 to make way for Pacific Park.
The Ward Building stretched from the south side of Pacific Street to the north side of Dean Street, between Carlton and Vanderbilt Avenues, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
The Ward Building was five stories tall, with a facade of glazed white terra cotta tiles. Grecian-inspired arches ran the length of the building, front and back. Ornamental detailing ran the length of the building. At one end stood a 120-foot (37 m) smoke stack, previously used in the baking process. It had six floors, a basement, and sub-basement, with a total area is more than 4 acres (16,000 m2).
It received flour shipments via the adjacent rail lines.
In 1911, George S. Ward, President of the Ward Baking Company, built the Ward Building to accommodate a large industrial bakery. To prepare for designing the building, Ward and members of the architectural firm he hired, C. B. Comstock, went on a tour of buildings and manufacturing facilities in Europe. Corry B. Comstock also designed a similar factory in Buffalo, New York.
A 1921 Ward Bakery Publication,The Story of our Research Products described Ward as having “the courage and the pioneer spirit to erect the first sanitary and scientific bakery in America.” It also described the Ward Building as “the snow-white temple of bread-making cleanliness.”
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Ward Baking Company Building
The Ward Baking Company Building was an industrial facility in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York. It was constructed in 1911 by George S. Ward as a baking plant for the Ward Bread Company, which later became the Continental Baking Company.
According to the Ward Baking Company, the Ward Building housed the first "sanitary and scientific bakery in America." The building housed hundreds of workers who produced 250,000 loaves of bread per day.
It was demolished in 2007 to make way for Pacific Park.
The Ward Building stretched from the south side of Pacific Street to the north side of Dean Street, between Carlton and Vanderbilt Avenues, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
The Ward Building was five stories tall, with a facade of glazed white terra cotta tiles. Grecian-inspired arches ran the length of the building, front and back. Ornamental detailing ran the length of the building. At one end stood a 120-foot (37 m) smoke stack, previously used in the baking process. It had six floors, a basement, and sub-basement, with a total area is more than 4 acres (16,000 m2).
It received flour shipments via the adjacent rail lines.
In 1911, George S. Ward, President of the Ward Baking Company, built the Ward Building to accommodate a large industrial bakery. To prepare for designing the building, Ward and members of the architectural firm he hired, C. B. Comstock, went on a tour of buildings and manufacturing facilities in Europe. Corry B. Comstock also designed a similar factory in Buffalo, New York.
A 1921 Ward Bakery Publication,The Story of our Research Products described Ward as having “the courage and the pioneer spirit to erect the first sanitary and scientific bakery in America.” It also described the Ward Building as “the snow-white temple of bread-making cleanliness.”