More Info →Plan for a Creamery for the Crown Dairy Company

Description

This plan for a creamery was designed by L. G. West for the Crown Dairy Company. The company was established in Taranaki in 1888 and rapidly expanded by taking over unsuccessful dairy factories. By the mid-1890s it was the second largest New Zealand manufacturer of dairy products. Competition from other co-operatives led to its dismantling by 1910. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he formed a partnership with his son, Ernest Vilhem West, who continued the business after his father's death.

Identification

Object type

plans

Archive

L G West & Son

Relation

CA: L G West, Series 4

Date

1897

Digitisation ID

2021Pa_LGWest-S4-214_037176

Format

Paper

Held In

"Community Archives"