Minnesota Milk Company Building Saint Paul, Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places Data
Minnesota Milk Company Building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13001148
- Date Listed
- February 5, 2014
- Name
- Minnesota Milk Company Building
- Other Names
- Old Home Plaza
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 370 W. University Ave.
- City/Town
- Saint Paul
- County
- Ramsey
- State
- Minnesota
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- INDUSTRY
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Minnesota Milk Company Building, located at 370 West University Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, with the Area of Significance being Industry. Its level of significance is local to Saint Paul. Related state contexts include -Railroads and Agricultural Development: 1870-1950- and -Urban Centers: 1870-1940- and the City of Saint Paul context of -Transportation Corridors: 1857-1950.- The period of significance is from 1913, when the building was initially constructed, to 1960, when the company purchased Old Home Creameries and changed the company name to Old Home Foods Incorporated.3 4 The Minnesota Milk Company (MMC) building is thus significant in that it is representative of the urban milk processing industry in Saint Paul during the first half of the 20th century; the MMC was a major figure in the industry, and the University Avenue processing facility is the only remaining architectural resource from that period that still demonstrates substantial interior and exterior plant integrity.
