Key Number:	HS 25186
Site Name:	Camrose Feed Mill
Other Names:	Alexander Wholesale Grocery Co. Camrose Feedmill Restaurant Feed Mill Dining Lounge The Feedmill
Site Type:	0414 - Mercantile/Commercial: Wholesale or Warehouse Store

Location

ATS Legal Description:

			Twp	Rge	Mer
			47	20	4

Address:	4919 - 47 Street
Number:	19
Street:	47
Avenue:	49
Other:
Town:	Camrose
Near Town:

Media

Type	Number	Date	View
Digital scan of Negative Digital scan of Negative	11-R0052-04A 11-R0052-05A	2011/11/02 2011/11/02	Northwest Southeast

Architectural

Style:
Plan Shape:	Rectangular Short Facade
Storeys:	Storeys: 2
Foundation:	Basement/Foundation Wall Material: Concrete
Superstructure:	Undetermined
Superstructure Cover:	Brick - Bond: Stretcher
Roof Structure:	Flat
Roof Cover:	Roof Cover: Unknown
Exterior Codes:	Massing of Units: Single Detached Massing of Units: Attached, Irregular Wings: Rear and Either Side Number of Bays - Facade: First or Ground Floor, 4 Bays Wall Design and Detail: String or Belt Course Roof Trim - Eaves: Projecting Eaves Roof Trim - Eaves: Moulded Fascia Roof Trim Material - Eaves: Wood Window - Structural Opening Shape: Flat Window - Structural Opening Shape: Segmental Window - Trim Outside Structural Opening - Head: Plain Lintel Window - Trim Outside Structural Opening - Head: Keystone Window - Trim Outside Structural Opening - Sides: Plain Window - Trim Outside Structural Opening - Material: Brick Window - Trim Outside Structural Opening - Material: Plaster or Stucco Window - Sill Type: Moulded Lug Sill Window - Sill Material: Plaster or Stucco Window - Trim Within Structural Opening - Head: Plain Window - Trim Within Structural Opening - Sides: Plain Window - Special Types: Segmental Window - Special Types: Stained Glass Main Entrance - Location: Corner Main Entrance - Structural Opening Shape: Semi-Circular Main Entrance - Trim Outside Structural Opening - Head: Entablature Main Entrance - Trim Outside Structural Opening - Sides: Plain Main Entrance - Trim Outside Structural Opening Material: Brick Main Entrance - Trim Within Structural Opening - Head: Shaped Transom, Single Light Main Entrance - Trim Within Structural Opening - Sides: Plain Main Entrance - Number of Leaves: 1 Main Entrance - Number of Panels Per Leaf: 3 Main Entrance - Leaves - Special Feature: Glass
Exterior:	Stained windows, wooden walkway, segmentally arched windows, design in brick pediments, checkered tracery on doorway, sign is decorative, cornice decorative, has keystones. (Inventory Site Form, 1980) * * * Red brick exterior, chamfered front corner entryway and arched windows. (Heritage Collaborative, 2011)
Interior:	Very interesting with original pilars, carpet and bricks. (Inventory Site Form, 1980)
Environment:	It is located in an area of industrial/commercial land use to the southeast of the central business district. * * * Located on a corner lot in a commercial area in the City of Camrose (Heritage Collaborative, 2011)
Condition:	Structure: Fair. Repair: Fair. 1 JAN 1980.
Alterations:	Apparent Alterations and/or Additions: Window Site: Original The building has been recycled for a third time. The machinery and superstructure was subsequently removed in order to permit its present function as a restaurant.

Historical

Construction:	Construction Date:
Usage:	Usage Date:
Feed mill (wholesale) Liquor store Seed cleaning plant Restaurant	1910/01/01 1938/01/01 1942/01/01 1977/09/21
Owner:	Owner Date:
William Georgeson Province of Alberta Camrose Office Tower Ltd.	1910/01/01 1938/01/01 1977/01/01

Architect:
Builder:	Georgeson & Co. Ltd.
Craftsman:
History:	It was Alexander Grocery Company. Then it was Alexander Wholesale Grocery. It was Georgeson Company, controlled by one of the largest wholesale grocery cons. Then bought by Provincial Gov't. Used it as a Liqour Store in front half and seed cleaning at rear of building. (1942). Alberta Wheat Pool took building over after Liquor Store was moved and they used it for seed cleaning purposes. (1957 it started). Commecial development - agricultural development. (Inventory Site Form 1980) * * * This structure was erected in 1910, by Georgeson Co. Ltd., a wholesale grocery firm from Calgary. The firm had been established in Calgary in 1906, by William Georgeson who had been a prominent member of the Winnipeg Business community prior to his relocation farther west. The warehouse was one of a number constructed at the time, and gave Camrose a significant wholesale function in the region. Other firms who built warehouse facilities included G.F. J. Gilt Ltd., (wholesale grocers), and Cameron Fletcher, (wholesale distributors for International Harvester Company and the Calgary Brewing and Malting Co.). The emergence of Camrose as a warehouse centre resulted from construction of branch lines through the community by the C.P.R., C.N.R. and G.T.P. In 1938 the building was acquired by the Province of Alberta for use as a liquor store. It was resold in 1944, to the Alberta Seed Growers Co-operative Limited. The conversion of the building into a seed cleaning plant necessitated the addition of a wooden superstructure and machinery to the 1910 portion of the building. In 1977, the building was acquired by its present owners who have recycled the building for a third time. The machinery and superstructure was subsequently removed in order to permit its present function as a restaurant. Its present exterior appearance is, to a large extent, the same as it was when constructed in 1910. * * * The Camrose Feed Mill was originally constructed at the height of the City's boom times in 1910 by Georgeson & Co. Ltd., a Calgary grocery wholesale firm. Camrose was established as a transportation hub in the early twentieth century when it became a junction point for three railways - the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.), Canadian Northern Railway (C.No.R.), and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (G.T.P.). As a result ofits strategic position in the province's rail network, Camrose became a centre for wholesale operations such as Georgeson & Co. Ltd. The building was later sold and transformed for use. In August 1942, the Alberta Seed Growers' Co-op seed cleaning plant came to Camrose and resided in this building. On August 1, 1957, the Alberta Wheat Pool took over the assets of the co-op. In 1967, the new seed cleaning plant was built and the old one abandoned. Later the building was sold to the Stang brothers who converted it into the Feed Mill Dining Lounge. It remains one of the few remaining wholesale facilities in Camrose's original warehouse district. (Heritage Collaborative, 2011)

Internal

Designation Status:	Designation Date:
Provincial Historic Resource	1985/05/31

Register:

Links

Internet:
Alberta Register of Historic Places:	4665-0501