Advance Thresher Co. office building razed

dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-25T14:34:37Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-25T14:34:37Z
dc.date.issued	1971-06-00
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000327
dc.description	The main office of Advance Thresher Co., one of Battle Creek's largest industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was leveled in May 1971. The office was the keystone of a maze of buildings that occupied about 50 acres on Kendall Street between the tracks of the Michigan Central and Grand Trunk Western railroads. In 1886, the Case & Willard Thresher Co. became the Advance Thresher Co., with some 800 employees.	en_US
dc.format.medium	35mm BW Negative
dc.subject	industry manufacturing	en_US
dc.title	Advance Thresher Co. office building razed	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.description.envelope	Advance Thresher Building being torn down
dc.description.photographer	George Vallillee
dc.description.taxonomy	Business/Industry\|Local Business History	en_US

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Description: A plague on the building bears the date 1898, presumably the date of the office building's construction. Enquirer and News editor Art Middleton wrote that it was "a forerunner of future offices with oak paneling and large, well-windowed rooms."

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