American Chicle Company Building

United States historic place


American Chicle Company Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Seen from Fig Street, 2010
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Location	8311 Fig St., New Orleans, Louisiana
Coordinates	29°57′43″N 90°7′3″W / 29.96194°N 90.11750°W / 29.96194; -90.11750
Area	less than one acre
Built	1911 (1911)
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance
NRHP reference No.	98001176
Added to NRHP	September 18, 1998

The American Chicle Company Building, built in 1911, is located in the Gert Town neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.

The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce started campaigning for a chewing gum factory in the city in 1900. Points in favor of New Orleans as a good location for such a factory included being USA's leading port of commerce with Latin America, so much chicle was already shipped through there, and large quantities of sugar are grown and refined in Louisiana.

The American Chicle Company built the building as a branch factory, which opened production in 1911.

After the gum factory closed, the building housed a box factory and an automotive parts warehouse.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

The area flooded in the 2005 levee failure disaster during Hurricane Katrina. After remaining vacant for years, the building was refurbished as an office building in 2008–2009, and now houses the headquarters of Landis Construction Company.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
The New York Times, 19 Oct 1900
National Register Staff, Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation (May 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: American Chicle Co. Building / Marine Paint & Varnish". National Park Service. Retrieved April 2, 2019. With accompanying 11 photos from 1998

New York Times, Wednesday October 19, 1900, Page 5.
Landis goes green with new HQ 2008
Landis Construction adapts a landmark for its new headquarters

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