Life Savers Building Explained

Life Savers Building
Location:N. Main St., Port Chester, New York
Built:1920
Architect:Lockwood, Greene & Co.
Architecture:Chicago
Added:July 11, 1985
Refnum:85001496

Life Savers Building is a historic commercial and industrial building located on North Main Street between Horton and Wilkins Avenues at Port Chester, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1920 and expanded in 1948–1949. It served as a manufacturing facility and headquarters of the Life Savers Candy Company until 1984. It is five stories high and constructed of reinforced concrete, brick, and terra cotta. It features larger-than-life replicas of Life Savers rolls at the foundation line.[1] During its peak period of production in the 1960s, as many as 616 million rolls of Life Savers candy were produced each year in the facility. It was converted into a condominium complex in 1989.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The larger than life replicas of Life Savers have since been removed.

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  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration:Life Savers Building. March 1985. 2010-12-30 . Neil Larson. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. See also: Web site: Accompanying nine photos.
  2. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1D81E38F936A1575BC0A96F948260 "About Real Estate; A Troubled Port Chester Project's Second Effort," New York Times, By Andree Brooks, Published: August 25, 1989