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Map code: 0710-054-0096-7.
DOE 11/8/1991. Madison Historic Landmark: 3/7/1994.
Damaged by fire in May of 2001. A small cottage on the property was constructed in 1905 as the Madison office of the U.S. Sugar Co. The company at its peak processed 500 tons of sugar beets a day but went bankrupt in 1924. James Garver bought the property and converted it into a feed mill in 1931. In 1997 it was purchased by the Olbrich Botanical Society. The cottage is now used as office space by Olbrich's horticultural staff.
Originally constructed in 1906, the facility contained 200,000 square feet of space and was the largest factory ever erected in Madison. When it was completed, it became the fourth sugar beet processing plant in Wisconsin; the Madison plant being an almost exact copy of the plant in Janesville. In 1926, the structure was sold to the Garver Feed and Supply Company whose owners removed the top two stories and the Richardsonian turret.
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Rephotographic Pair: Garver Feed and Supply Company and U.S.
A modern view of the Garver Feed and Supply Company and a vintage view of the same building when it was the U.S. Sugar Company, presented as a pair. There is snow on the ground in both images.
United States Sugar Company Factory
1920
Exterior view of the United States Sugar Company factory next to railroad tracks on Atwood Avenue. The building was occupied in 1980 by Garver Feed & Supply.
