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Escondido Orange Association Packing House, 1155 West Mission Avenue, Escondido, San Diego County, CA
Summary
Significance: The building is one of two major packing houses constructed in response to the rapid expansion of the Escondido Valley citrus industry. It was designed by W.W. Ache, a prominent designer of fruit packing plants and built by the Escondido Orange Association in 1934. When originally constructed, the building was touted as being the most up-to-date in the California citrus packing industry and as having the widest Arch-Rib trussless roof ever installed.
Survey number: HAER CA-69
Building/structure dates: 1934- 1935 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1989 Demolished
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Ache, William W
William P. Neil Company, Ltd.
Escondido Orange Association
Paramount Citrus Association, Inc.
Location
Escondido, 33.12387, -117.10225
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
