In this 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" black and white photograph, a brick building stands on the corner of two brick streets. The majority of the building has three stories; however, the rear portion of the building is taller. "Griswold Seeds" is painted on the building. The building has many windows on each floor and a loading dock in the front. There is a gas pump on the side of the building, and vehicles are parked in the street. "Griswold Seed & Nursery Co" is written on the photograph.
Robert Southgate Griswold, Jr. operated Griswold Seed Company on the southwest corner of South 8th and N Street when this photograph was taken around 1928. His cousin Wallace Butler Griswold founded the company and built a reinforced concrete seed elevator, warehouse and office in 1910, after a fire destroyed his earlier facility on that location. F. C. Fiske was the architect and Arthur Ward, a Lincoln millwright, was the contractor for this frank industrial structure. Midwest Steel Company acquired the Griswold property in 1994. Searle & Chapen Lumber Company was located just west (right) of Griswold Seed. The tall chimney to the left marks Beatrice Creamery Company's power house on their creamery block, south of Griswold. At the time of the photograph Beatrice Creamery did not yet control their entire block and the sign of Wilson & Co., meatpackers, is visible below the chimney.
