A four-story brick building stands on a corner in this 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" black and white photograph. The building has many windows and a loading dock on one side. There are signs on the building that say "Gillen's Candies, Gillen & Boney, Good Candy Makers." The corner of the building has an awning and two windows with "Gillen's Candies" painted on each of them. There is a large sidewalk in front of the building. "Gillen and Boney" is written on the photograph.
The Gillen and Boney Company, located at 8th and P Streets, was established in 1895 and grew to became one of the largest manufacturers in Lincoln. Russell Stover Candy Company purchased Gillen and Boney Co. during World War II and operated in the Haymarket until the 1970s, producing a million pounds of candy per month at its peak. This building has a complex history, starting as the four-story Clark Building in 1887. Two-thirds of the structure was destroyed by fire in 1895, but the southern most third along P Street survived. A. W. Woods designed a three-story replacement of the burned portion in 1906 for the Gillen and Boney Co., then a fourth floor was added to that part, and finally Fiske and Meginnis remodeled the exterior of the Clark Building remnant in 1924 to align with the Woods design. The building was renovated as The Candy Factory in 1984-5, a mixed retail/office structure with an airy atrium that reveals the scorched firewall that halted the 1895 fire.
