American Chicle Company Building

American Chicle Company Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Seen from Fig Street, 2010
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Location	8311 Fig St., New Orleans, Louisiana
Coordinates	29°57′43″N 90°7′3″W / 29.96194°N 90.11750°W / 29.96194; -90.11750Coordinates: 29°57′43″N 90°7′3″W / 29.96194°N 90.11750°W / 29.96194; -90.11750
Area	less than one acre
Built	1911
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance
NRHP Reference #	98001176[1]
Added to NRHP	September 18, 1998

American Chicle Company Building is located in the Gert Town neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.

The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce started campaigning for a chewing gum factory in the city in 1900. Points in favor of New Orleans as a good location for such a factory included being USA's leading port of commerce with Latin America, so much chicle was already shipped through there, and large quantities of sugar are grown and refined in Louisiana. (New York Times, 19 Oct 1900)

The American Chicle Company built the building as a branch factory, which opened production in 1911.

After the gum factory closed, the building housed a box factory and an automotive parts warehouse.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1998.

The area flooded in the 2005 levee failure disaster during Hurricane Katrina. After remaining vacant for years, the building was refurbished as an office building in 2008-2009, and now houses the headquarters of Landis Construction Company.

References

• New York Times, Wednesday October 19, 1900, Page 5.
• Landis goes green with new HQ 2008
• Landis Construction adapts a landmark for its new headquarters

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