NRHP: Fairmont Creamery Company Building
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Fairmont Creamery Company Building
NRHP Reference #: 83003989
NRHP Listing Date: 19831215
Location
SEC of 6th Ave & F, Fairmont, Fillmore County, Nebraska
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Summary
The one-story brick commercial building, erected in 1884, was the general office of the nationally known Fairmont Creamery Company. Founded by Wallace Wheeler and Joseph Rushton, the company became well known in the dairy industry for its quality control and progressive methods of food production and distribution. The general offices of the company moved from Fairmont to Omaha in 1907. In 1947 the Fairmont Creamery Company became Fairmont Foods Company. During the 1970s, Fairmont Foods moved its headquarters from Omaha to Houston and later changed its name to Utotem, Inc.
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