Sanitarium Health Food Co.

Parent Place or Precinct

10417 Carmel Adventist College, Orchard, Packing Shed & Chapel

Values

The place has associations with the Sanitarium Health Food Factory and has operated as a factory for this company from 1932 to 2003.

The place appears to be one of only a few industrial sites in the Carmel area, in particular those associated with the manufacture of food.

The place is representative of an industrial group of buildings built during the 1930s in the Inter War Stripped Classical style.

This has significance to the people who have worked there from 1932 up to the present day.

Physical Description

The site comprises a factory and office. The factory is located at the rear of the property (western end). It is a brick industrial building with a sawtooth CGI roof. The sawtooth roofed portion of the building was built in 1960.

To Glenisla Road is the brick office, which is designed in the Inter War Stripped Classical style.

History

The factory and associated office was constructed in Carmel for the Sanitarium Health Food Company in 1932. Designed by engineers, Harry Tempest and W. George Thrift, the purpose of the factory was the manufacture of wheat flake biscuits.

Sanitarium products had actually been available for sale in WA since the turn of the twentieth century.

The factory was extended in 1932 to incorporate two mills and an additional cooker. Later, a ramp was built next to the railway line to allow deliveries of bulk wheat directly from train to truck, and in 1960 the factory was extended.

In 2003, the factory is still in operation.

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Condition

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