Jones 421, #FlashForwardFriday

Jones 421 means good living. Quiet. Privacy. Views. Community. Common Spaces. Light. Art. Lifestyle.

History

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing
structure in the Old Courthouse and Warehouse Historic District, this
unique building was constructed in 1909 for the O.S. Jones Seed Co.,
a distributor of farm and garden seeds. In 1919, the Northwestern Seed
Company acquired the building and continued to use it for seed storage
until 1926. From 1927 until the 1940s, the building was leased by
the Hobart sales Agency, 1927; Schlitz Brewing Company, 1930; farm
implement dealer Will A. Burlet, 1936; and the Co-op Wool Growers
of South Dakota, 1940. During most of the 1940s and 1950s, Crescent
Electric Supply occupied the building, before it housed several different
automobile parts dealers in the 1960s. Lindsay Bros. Co., a farm equipment
distributor, then used the building for storage until the Food Pantry
took it over in the 80s.

The building contained twelve concrete bins with a capacity of 30,000
bushels of seed. The rear quarter of the structure has a gable-roofed cupola
that rises to a height of 70’and contains an elevator head house that
was used to fill the grain bins. Vestiges of the grain bin dryers can still
be seen near the ground on both sidewalls. The rear (east) wall of the
structure has the remnants of a door for loading railroad cars.