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List of packing houses

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Elephant Packing House, Fullerton, California
N. G. Arfaras Sponge Packing House, Tarpon Springs, Florida

This is a list of notable packing houses. A packing house is a building where fruits, oysters, or other items are packed for shipping and distribution and there exist thousands of them in agricultural areas.

in England

The main purpose of packing warehouses in England was the picking, checking, labelling and packing of goods for export.[1][2] The packing warehouses: Asia House, India House and Velvet House along Whitworth Street in Manchester were some of the tallest buildings of their time.

in the United States

A number of historically significant packing houses in the United States are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Notable packing houses include:

References

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  1. ^ Wyke, Terry. "Manchester warehouses". Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery. Manchester City Galleries. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  2. ^ Parkinson-Bailey, John J. (2000). Manchester: An architectural history. Manchester University Press. p. 81. ISBN 0-7190-5606-3.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  4. ^ "New food hall Anaheim Packing House celebrates grand opening on Saturday", Los Angeles Times, 2014-05-29
  5. ^ "Ready for a new culinary walkabout? Anaheim Packing House is here", Orange County Register

Further reading

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  • The Story of the Bale. Manchester: Lloyd's Packing Warehouses Ltd, Princess Street, 1926