Ramsey County Historical Society issued the following announcement.
Old Home Creameries, located at 370 West University Avenue, was incorporated on May 9, 1925 and Mr. Davies, the owner, sold eleven pounds of cottage cheese. The next day, he sold sixty pounds and on the third, the total rose to ninety pounds. 90 pounds. By 1930, the company had fourteen trucks, thirty employees and was producing over a million pounds a year to meet the growing demand.
In the late 1950’s, the company was purchased and its name changed to Old Home Foods Incorporated. The Minnesota Milk Company building continued in active dairy production for another fifty years after its acquisition, finally closing in 2006 having stayed in business while its competitors closed. The Minnesota Milk Company, as it is now referred to, is significant as a representative of the flourishing urban milk processing industry in Saint Paul. It is the only remaining milk-production facility of its kind that still has much interior and exterior plant architectural integrity.
The Minnesota Milk Company is the only creamery that was maintained as a dairy-related production plant into the 21st century. It stands alone as Saint Paul’s sole remaining milk-processing factory indicative of the sense of place and symbolic of the pivotal role dairy played in this important period in Minnesota.
Thank you to Steve Trimble and https://oldhomefoods.com/about/ for this historical post.
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