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Sperry Flour Company Elevator

Two of 28 technical drawings of a grain elevator for the Sperry Flour Company, created by Maurice C. Couchot on February, 16, 1918. The original Sperry Building was built in 1911 and was demolished in 1973.

Maurice C. Couchot was an architect and engineer from San Francisco that was inspired to become a pioneer of reinforced concrete building methods after experiencing the devastation of the 1906 earthquake. Couchot was the company engineer for Sperry Flour and contributed industrial plans for structures in California and Washington.

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This aerial view of the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks which run along the edge of Commencement Bay just south of Old Tacoma, and adjoining northend neighborhoods, dates from August 1966; before the Schuster Parkway was built. The Sperry Flour grain elevators, located at what is now 3 Schuster Parkway, were located next to the tracks. The General Mills, Sperry Division, had closed in 1965. The plant's grain towers were torn down in 1973 and its deteriorating dock, the last portion of the mill, was demolished in 1989. Work on Schuster Parkway began in 1973 and was completed in 1976. Photograph ordered by Swanson-McGoldrick, Inc.

Aerial photographs; General Mills, Inc., Sperry Division (Tacoma); Piers & wharves--Tacoma--1960-1970; Railroad tracks--Tacoma--1960-1970; Neighborhoods--Tacoma--1960-1970; Waterfronts--Tacoma--1960-1970;

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Drifted snow flour is being transported onto the steel steamship "Edmore" from the Sperry Flour Co. facility on March 13, 1920. 400 tons of flour would join the previously loaded cargo of copper ingots from the smelter. The "Edmore" was the first of the Oriental liners to call at Tacoma under a new schedule by the Pacific Steamship Co. She had sustained damage to her structure due to heavy seas on her voyage to the Puget Sound region. Sperry Flour had completed a big grain elevator project less than two years before in time for the tremendous trade expansion that would occur. The Tacoma Daily Ledger would report on March 22, 1920, that "Flour (was the) Greatest Tacoma Industry." Three export flouring mills on the waterfront, including Sperry, had their warehouses filled with 200,000 barrels of flour. Three shifts had run both night and day since August of 1919 with combined daily capacity exceeding 10,000 barrels. Flour operations at Sperry (by then a division of General Mills) would cease in 1965. TPL-904 G34.1-127; BU-13919 (TNT 3-12-20, p. 2-article; TDL 3-22-20, p. 7-article)

Cargo ships--Tacoma--1920-1930; Shipping--Tacoma--1920-1930; Sperry Flour Milling Co. (Tacoma); Flour & meal industry--Tacoma--1920-1930;

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TPL-1029

ca. 1900. Tacoma grain elevators. The Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator Co. grain dock and Elevator B are in the foreground of this circa 1900 photograph. A masted sailing ship is docked there waiting for a shipment of flour. In the background is Elevator A, operated by Cardin & Bibb. The Sperry Flour Co. would be built on the site of Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator in 1905. Sperry Flour would be purchased later by General Mills, Inc.

Warehouses--Tacoma--1900-1910; Grain elevators--Tacoma--1900-1910; Shipping--Tacoma--1900-1910; Sailing ships--Tacoma--1900-1910; Piers & wharves--Tacoma--1900-1910; Waterfronts--Tacoma--1900-1910;

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Sperry Flour Co. Sperry Flour Co. has gone through regular expansion in order to remain one of the top three flour mills in Tacoma. Exterior view of plant where flour gets loaded into train cars.

Flour & meal industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; General Mills, Inc., Sperry Division (Tacoma); Railroad freight cars--Tacoma--1940-1950;

3 SCHUSTER PARKWAY, TACOMA

  • 12 images. Puget Sound Flouring Mills A. Bradford, arch. N.J. Blagen, contr. -Puget Sound Flouring Mills plant, including bldg. later known the Sperry Ocean Dock, built in 1889 -Sperry Flour Co. plant, adjacent on the south, built in 1905 on the site of the former Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator co. plant, built in 1889 -Puget Sound Flouring Mills absorbed by the Sperry Flour Co. in 1922 -Sperry Co. later purchased by General Mills, Inc. -flour operations ceased in 1965 -last remaining bldg., the Sperry Ocean Dock, demolished c.1989 -address approximate -partial plans at TPL TDL 1/1/1889 p.16 (permit for grain elevator for the Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator Co. by Talbot, arch.) TDL 11/5/1889 p.5 Manufacture of flour TDL 1/1/1890 p.14 permits TDL 2/1/1890 p.3 Will use much wheat TDL 3/7/1890 p.5 The burrs in operation TDL 7/8/1890 p.4 (sketch) TDL 7/3/1898 (il) TDN 6/29/1905 (il) TNL 6/17/1917 p.13 Flour mill builds bridge to warehouse (Hurley- Mason Co., contr.) TNT 2/21/1922 Do you remember? TNT 8/27/1934 In Tacoma's family album (il under construction in 1889) 917.97 W52W 1899 p.31 979.702 G135O p.106-108,110 (il) ----- Sperry Flour Co. TDN 6/29/1905 (il) TDL 7/16/1911 p.32 Concrete building (Bullard & Hill, arch. TDL 6/6/1915 p.28 (addition by Bullard & Hill, arch.) TNL 6/3/1917 p.11 Sperry Company plans addition to office (Bullard & Hill, arch.) TNL 12/16/1917 p.18 Bids to be called next month on big Sperry elevator (Maurice Couchot, arch.) TNL 3/17/1918 p.B5 Work is under way on bins for flour mills (Palmer & Peterson, contr.) TNL 5/5/1918 p.A13 Excavation to depth of 70 feet on site of big Sperry project TDL 9/22/1918 p.B6 Grain elevator tanks completed (il) TDL 11/10/1918 p.A9 Sperry mills reported clean Overland Monthly Feb. 1927 p.37 T.Times 4/3/1947 Expansion of General Mills' Sperry plant here is planned T.Times 9/29/1947 ... to expand TNT 6/12/1949 "It's a living" ... flour packer (interior il) TNT 11/6/1949 Sperry's dock gets new look TNT 1/14/1953 p.1 Sperry closes 1 flour unit ... to be razed (il of Mill "C") TNT 10/30/1961 Sperry feed mill to close TNT 10/28/1962 p.A8 ... approved for fallout shelters Seattle P.I. 6/4/1965 Tacoma flouring mill to close TNT 6/4/1965 Flour mill will close next month 338.973 P83Pt 1923 p.28-29 (il) ----- TNT 6/11/1968 p.11 Tacoma firm buys Sperry Ocean Dock (proposed as import terminal TNT 6/23/1968 p.A1 Happy Harry's been through the mill (interior il) TNT 7/24/1968 p.A1 Grain dock planned at Sperry site (proposed by Export Pacific, Inc.) TNT 4/29/1973 Flour-making dated to 1890s ... (il) TNT 7/03/1973 Sperry Mill Bites Dust (il) TNT 8/30/1973 Gone with the blast (Sperry Mill Tunnel demolished) (il) TNT 11/15/1978 New career for old Sperry Dock TNT 1/9/1986 p.A1 Plan proposes storage at Sperry Dock (to be demolished) TNT 11/11/1986 The old Sperry Ocean Dock still stands (il) TNT 1/9/1988 p.A1 New plan for Sperry Dock calls for warehouse to be rebuilt for boat, household storage TNT 5/23/1990 Change along the waterfront TNT 8/8/1990 p.E1 Ships can now block views; State Shoreline Management Board says waterfront use takes precedence T.Weekly 11/15/2007 p.A3 Neighbors band together to fight Sperry Dock application (proposed expansion) (il) 333.7 T11SD2 Final environmental impact statement for Sperry Ocean Dock : p berthing operation
  • Year Built: 1889
  • Decade Built: 1880s
  • Demolished

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