New England Confectionery Company Factory
Company history
The New England Confectionery Company was formed in 1901 by the merger of three Boston-area confectioners. One of these, Ball and Fobes, had in 1860 acquired another competitor whose equipment included precursors to those used to manufacture Necco Wafers. Ball and Fobes developed methods to print writing on hard candies. It was built in 1925-27 to serve as the company's sole manufacturing facility, replacing earlier facilities (which are now part of the Fort Point Channel Historic District) in Boston, and was at the time the world's largest candy factory. The building was designed in the Moderne style by a company engineer, F. C. Lutze, and built by Lockwood & Greene. The company used the facility as its major production facility until 2003, when it consolidated operations in Revere.
Gallery
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Necco Factory, 2004, featuring water tower that had been painted (in 1996) to resemble a roll of Necco Wafers candy. Picture taken shortly before tower was repainted to Novartis design
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Detail of water tower
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for New England Confectionery Company Factory". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-21.