{"nrhp_refnum":"84000939","name":"Calpak Plant No. 11","other_names":["Del Monte Corporation,Plant No. 11"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1721 C St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.583969350000075,"lon":-121.48087567099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-story brick cannery at 1721 C Street in Sacramento, California, built in 1925 as Calpak (Del Monte) Plant No. 11. It occupies two blocks between 16th and 18th Streets.","why_significant":"The plant is tied to the California canning industry, which contributed to the state's economic and agricultural growth. When built it was one of the biggest fruit canneries in the world, and it was the last operating cannery in Sacramento's Old City area. The form also calls it a good representative of an attractive industrial building.","narrative":"Built in 1925 for the California Packing Corporation (Calpak), whose Del Monte brand was known worldwide, this brick cannery at 1721 C Street in Sacramento spans two blocks between 16th and 18th Streets. The building is 722 feet long and 218 feet wide, with a wood post-and-truss frame, a stepped parapet, and banks of metal-sash windows. Philip Bush, the company's engineering chief, designed it, and McDonald and Kahn built it for $325,000. At completion it was among the largest fruit canneries in the world, packing peaches, pears, tomatoes and other crops. Sacramento's farmland and transport links made it a natural site, and the city later became known as the canning center of the West. The plant was the last operating cannery in the Old City area. Additions came in 1937, 1943 and 1951. A rehabilitation completed by early 1984 added a public entrance, sales area and landscaped planters while the remainder kept its food processing role.","period_of_significance":"1925","architect_builder":"Philip Bush (designer, company Engineering Department Chief); built by contractors McDonald and Kahn","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated by January 1984 with a new public entry, sales area, lobby and auditorium; the rest of the plant continues food processing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.980194-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/84000939.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000939/4eac9de7f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000939/4eac9de7f7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ian Poellet","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calpak_Plant_11_1_-_Sacramento_California.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Poellet</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calpak_Plant_11_1_-_Sacramento_California.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860557","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calpak_Plant_No._11","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5023901"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/calpak-plant-no-11-84000939/"}