Marker Inscription
Industry, Architecture
Historic Place
Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company Building
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About this site
Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company Building is a historic place in Waco, McLennan County, dedicated in 1983. It is one of 8 historic places documented in McLennan County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 224 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.5551, -97.1294 near Waco. The nearest cataloged historic site is Waco Drug Company (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Brann-Davis Shootings, First Baptist Church of Waco, and Fort House.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2083003152. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Built in 1906 at the corner of Fifth and Mary Streets in Waco, this Richardsonian Romanesque building housed the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company, established to keep up with demand for Dr Pepper when soda-fountain production could no longer meet it. Designed by Waco architect Milton W. Scott, its thick brick walls survived an F5 tornado in 1953, and the repair in lighter brick remains visible. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as the "Home of Dr Pepper," it opened as the Dr Pepper Museum in 1991.
Sources: blogs.baylor.edusah-archipedia.org
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