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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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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;

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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;