Del Monte Building

Constructed by the Madison and Bonner Company in 1904 beside the Southern Pacific Railroad at the northwest corner of Sunnyvale and Evelyn Avenues, the Del Monte Building processed and stored dried fruit from local orchards for its first 26 years. During that period, several fruit canning operations, including Madison and Bonner, merged to form the California Packing Corporation, whose popular trademark became Del Monte. In 1930, the corporation moved its seed processing operation to the facility, which became the Sunnyvale Seed Germinating Laboratory. Del Monte became a subsidiary of the R. J. Reynolds Company in 1979, but by 1993, when Dubrovnik Association, Inc. (D.A.I.) purchased the building, the seed production site had closed and the building had stood vacant for several years. D.A.I. moved the building to its present site and gutted the interior to create ground floor retail space and meeting rooms on the upper floors. Its refurbished exterior maintains the essence of the original facade and remains a visual reminder of Sunnyvale's role in the impact that orchards and fruit processing made on the Santa Clara Valley.

Sunnyvale, California · United States