Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings - factories
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1911
3 stories, total floor area: 21,000 sq. ft.
A.G. Electric and Manufacturing Company was founded as a consultantship by A.E. Griswold and a man named Agutter in 1904, and operated from an office at 1406 1st Avenue. The firm then turned to manufacturing electrical knife switches, switchboards, panel boards, meter boards and steel boxes. In 05/1911, it moved into its facility at 905 Howard Avenue North where it became c. 1914 the largest producer of electrical switchboards on the West Coast. The factory was 60 by 120 feet , had 3 stories and a brick exterior.
PCAD id: 14902