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By-Products Plant National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form text: Built in 1924. Large frame structure with horizontal clapboard siding. Remodeled interior and exterior in the 1930s; abandoned, reopened, abandoned again, and remodeled again; the interior was remodeled as recently as the 1970s. Presently abandoned, it is in need of structural repairs. By-products (products incidental to the fur-seal industry) produced at one time or another on Saint Paul include: fox food, dog team food, mink food, crab bait, fertilizer, and oil. Between 1965 and 1975 a mink farmer removed old boilers to install experimental freezing equipment. The exterior retains the historic character of the 1930 seal processing building (Faulkner 1986).
Supplemental information provided by NOAA: The seal carcass by-products plant was constructed on St. Paul Island in 1918. The structure was a two-story wood frame, 55 x 75 ft., atop a concrete foundation (Bower 1919, 83). The building was razed by local interests in 1987.
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