| 1900/00/00 |
Earle and Fisher |
Architect |
Natural Food Co's factory (lost) is built at 430 Buffalo Ave in Niagara Falls, NY, to produce shredded wheat cereal. Designed by Earl and Fisher, the "Palace of Light" is made of 4 million bricks, 200 tons of marble and 30,000 panes of glass. |
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| 1900/00/00 |
Darius Ogden Mills |
Investor |
Henry Perky offers to sell $10 million dollars in Natural Food Co stock to investors and recruits his first two directors, William B Rankine and Darius O Mills of the Niagara Power Company. |
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| 1901/00/00 |
Olmsted Brothers Partners and Associates: 1898-1961 |
Landscape Architect |
Natural Food Co's factory (lost) is built at 430 Buffalo Ave in Niagara Falls to make shredded wheat cereal. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, the complex's landscape includes a playground, tennis court, ball fields and plots for employee gardens. |
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| 1901/05/15 |
Natural Food Company |
History |
Natural Food Company begins producing shredded wheat cereal at their new visionary factory (lost) at 430 Buffalo Avenue. |
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| 1901/06/01 |
Henry D Perky |
Work |
Henry D Perky offers factory tours of his "Palace of Light" (lost) at 430 Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls to visitors of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. |
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1901 Pan-American Exposition |
| 1902/00/00 |
Natural Food Company |
History |
Natural Food's Buffalo Ave campus (lost) provides showers and bathtubs with soap and towels which employees can use for an hour each week on company time and separate lunch rooms for men and women. The lady's lunches are free of charge while men pay $.10. |
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| 1902/00/00 |
Natural Food Company |
History |
Guides lead guest through the Natural Food Co's campus (lost) at 430 Buffalo Ave. Tours include lectures in the auditorium on diet, shredded wheat cooking demonstrations and a free lunch. About 100,000 guest visited annually until the tours ended c 1946. |
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| 1910/10/18 |
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The Forty-second annual convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association is held at the auditorium in the Shredded Wheat Company's headquarter (lost) at 430 Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls, New York, October 18, 19, 20 and 21. |
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| 1914/00/00 |
Natural Food Company |
History |
Shredded Wheat Company builds warehouse facilities served by railroad tracks on Rainbow Boulevard. These will be enlarged in 1921. |
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| 1954/00/00 |
Nabisco |
History |
Nabisco begins producing shredded wheat at the Rainbow Boulevard site and places the old factory (lost) and administration building (lost) on Buffalo Avenue up for sale. |
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| 1956/00/00 |
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Nabisco leases the administration building (lost) at 430 Buffalo Avenue to Union Carbide as a research facility. |
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| 1963/00/00 |
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Niagara County Community College opens in the Nabisco administration building (lost) at 430 Buffalo Avenue and the old factory on the same site is demolished. |
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| 1976/00/00 |
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Niagara County Community College moves to Sanborn. Despite efforts by local preservationist and being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Nabisco administration building at 430 Buffalo Avenue is razed. |
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| 1992/00/00 |
Nabisco |
History |
Nabisco ceases production of shredded at their Rainbow Boulevard facility in Niagara Falls, New York. The factory will continue to bake Triscuits. |
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| 2001/12/13 |
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Kraft Foods closes the Nabisco Rainbow Boulevard production facility. |
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