| Kirkland Cannery Building | |
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| General information | |
| Address | 640 8th Avenue |
| Town or city | Kirkland, Washington |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 47°40′53″N 122°11′42″W / 47.6815°N 122.1950°W / 47.6815; -122.1950 |
| Completed | 1936 |
The Kirkland Cannery Building, also once called King County Food Processing Plant and State Cannery Number 4, is a historic building in Kirkland, Washington. It is an 11,000 ft cannery, built in 1936 by President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA), and was sold to the City of Kirkland in 1941 for $44.79. It was operated as a cooperative to benefit the poor during the Great Depression, along with three other WPA plants at Kent, Wapato, and Wenatchee. Citizens could bring in crops, fish, and chicken, to be canned at no charge in exchange for donating one third of the product to "state institutions". During World War II, it "was largely as an aid to the general food conservation program and the war effort rather than as an economic aid to the communities served". Around this time, it produced a peak of 400,000 cans of food per season. After the war it was leased to local businesspeople and used for private concerns, then sold to them in 1974. They operated the Kirkland Custom Seafood business, using the cannery building as a smokehouse for Aldercove brand smoked salmon, processing 350,000 pounds of salmon there in 2000, the year before it closed.
Around 2006, the city was looking for a new owner to preserve the building, and in late 2014, the cannery building was sold to local resident and Philanthropist Carl Bradley who will preserve and restore the Cannery, returning it back to serve the community once again.
References
- ^ Kirkland Parks 2006.
- Historylink 1999.
- Spokesman-Review 1943.
- Eastside Heritage Center 2006, p. 85.
- State of Washington 1945, p. 30.
- ^ King County Assessor 2015.
- Mulady 2001.
- Chiu 2006.
- Butcher 2014.
- Kirkland Reporter 2015.
- Vaughn 2014.
- Trust for Historic Preservation 2014.
Books
- Eastside Heritage Center (2006). "An Agricultural Legacy". Lake Washington, the East Side. Images of America. San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Pub. pp. 67–92. ISBN 0-7385-3106-5.
- Issues 21-36 of Monograph, Washington (State). Washington (State). Emergency Relief Commission. 1934. p. 8.
- State of Washington (1945). Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Supervisor of Banking. Washington Public Documents. State of Washington.
Newspapers
- "Canneries open for public use", Spokesman-Review, Spokane, May 15, 1943
- Mulady, Kathy (2001-06-06), "End of line for Kirkland Custom Seafood", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2015-09-29
- Chiu, Lisa (2006-06-22), "Local News - Joint effort seeks new uses for Kirkland cannery", The Seattle Times, retrieved 2015-09-29
- Butcher, Rob (December 27, 2014), "Local Landmark Kirkland Custom Cannery To Get New Life", Kirkland Views (News blog)
- "Historic Kirkland cannery sold", Kirkland Reporter, p. 12, January 9, 2015
- Vaughn, Alexa (2014-12-28), "Change of ownership to preserve historic Kirkland cannery", The Seattle Times, retrieved 2015-09-29
Other sources
- Kirkland Cannery Building (PDF), City of Kirkland Parks Department, 2006
- "Best Moments in Preservation 2014". Washington Trust for Historic Preservation. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
- Commercial Revalue 2015 Assessment Roll: Area 85 Bothell, Kirkland, NE Lake Washington Corridor, King County, Department of Assessments, p. 28
- Staff, King County Office of Cultural Resources (June 1999), "King County Historical Bibliography, Part 14: WPA", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink
External links
Media related to Kirkland Cannery at Wikimedia Commons- Images at University of Washington Digital Collections
- Kirkland Cannery history, City of Kirkland, May 26, 2009
