Budd Dairy Company

The story

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The Budd Dairy Company is a former dairy processing complex at 1086 N. 4th St. in Columbus, Franklin County, built in stages between 1915 and 1929 by architect David Riebel in the Commercial Style. It was listed in the National Register in 2017.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture and industry. Its period of significance runs from 1916, when the building was constructed, to 1967, when Borden closed the dairy plant there.

Physical character

The buildings stand on concrete foundations with a concrete frame, walls of red pressed brick trimmed in white terracotta, and patterned brick parapets, brick pilasters, and an octagonal brick chimney. The complex has steel trusses with an arched upper chord under a monitor roof with clerestory windows and concrete mushroom columns, and inside, a tile-lined sanitary production room has white glazed tile walls, red tile floors, and cork insulation.

Historical context

Simon T. Budd started the dairy in 1894, and William H. Budd took it over in 1906; the company moved to this address in 1916. The building passed to Crane Ohio Ice Cream Company in 1924 and Hamilton Milk Company in 1928, before Borden bought it in 1934.