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Grocers Wholesale Company Building

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Grocers Wholesale Company Building
Location22 W. 9th St.
Des Moines, Iowa
Coordinates41°34′58.9″N 93°37′40.6″W / 41.583028°N 93.627944°W / 41.583028; -93.627944
Arealess than one acre
Built1916
ArchitectRalph Edmund Sawyer
Charles Albert Watrous
Architectural styleEarly Commercial
NRHP reference No.08000330[1]
Added to NRHPApril 25, 2008

The Grocers Wholesale Company Building, also known as the Sears and Roebuck Farm Store, is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1916, this was the first of four warehouses built and owned by Iowa's only and most successful statewide cooperative grocery warehouse.[2] It is possible that it was the first statewide organization of this kind in the country. The cooperative allowed independent grocers to compete against chain stores and survive wholesale grocers' surcharges. They leased their first warehouse after they organized in 1912. Each successive time the cooperative built a new warehouse it was larger and technologically more advanced than the previous one. This particular cooperative grew to include parts of four states: Iowa, southern Minnesota, northern Missouri and eastern Nebraska. They built their second warehouse in 1930 and moved out of this facility. They continued to own this building until 1968, and they leased it out to other firms. The Sears Farm Equipment Store began to occupy the building in 1937 and continued here until 1959. The cooperative became the Associated Grocers of Iowa in the late 1950s, and it continued in existence until 1985. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ James E. Jacobsen. "Grocers Wholesale Company Building". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-10-25. with photo(s)


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