Structure Type: built works - research structures - laboratories
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1952-1953
Overview
This research laboratory for the Carnation Company opened in 1953 and operated until 1994 as a research and product development laboratory.
It has been razed.
Building History
Elbridge Amos Stuart (1856-1944) founded the forerunner of the Carnation Company, the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company, in 1899. It incorporated in WA State as the "Carnation Milk Products Company" in 1916. Pacific Coast Condensed Milk operated initially in Kent, WA, and Carnation later had corporate offices in Seattle and Milwaukee, WI, before relocating its national headquarters to Los Angeles, CA, in 1949. The Swiss food giant Nestlé S.A. Incorporated, bought the Carnation Company in 1984.
Demolition
The Carnation Research Building was razed in the about 1998.
Los Angeles County Assessor Number: 2210018016
PCAD id: 24797