ID: 700009443 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009443	Record Type: Built Work
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Domino Sugar Refinery (sugar refinery; architect: unavailable; patron: Havemeyer, Frederick C. (180...; opened in 1856, rebuilt follow...)

Note: Former industrial building complex; American Sugar Refining Company, which produced Domino brand sugar; was for a time the largest sugar refinery in the world. In operation since 1856, rebuilt following a fire in 1882. Shuttered in 2004. Several of the buildings in the complex were given landmark status in 2007. As of 2017 the property is under redevelopment as office space, residential towers, and parkland.

Titles:

Domino Sugar Refinery (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sugar refinery [300006358] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, industrial structures, industrial buildings, factories (structures), <factories by function>, processing plants, food processing plants)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: opened in 1856, rebuilt following a fire in 1882; shuttered in 2004; under redevlopment from 2017

Creator Display:

architect: unavailable; patron: Havemeyer, Frederick C. (1807-1891) [preferred]

owner Havemeyer, Frederick C. (American industrialist, 1807-1891) [500475539]

architects unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Brooklyn [7015822] New York City (inhabited place), New York state (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Address Note: 40°42′52″N 73°58′03″W; 314 Kent Avenue, at South 3rd Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Display Materials: after 1882 fire, rebuilt in brick and stone

	brick (clay material) [300010463]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, clay, <clay by product>)

	stone (worked rock) [300011176]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), <rock by form>)

Dimensions: 11-acre site; 10 stories high

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

Related Works:

	is architectural context for .... A Subtlety [700009273]
	..........sculpture (visual works); Walker, Kara Elizabeth (American book artist, painter, and i...; designed 2014

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: institutional, public, commercial, and industrial buildings

Sources and Contributors:
Domino Sugar Refinery	........ [VP]
	........ Chen, Brooklyn Towers Soar (2018)
	........ Busta, Look Inside the Former Domino Sugar Refinery (2015)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Chen, Brooklyn Towers Soar (2018)
	..... Busta, Look Inside the Former Domino Sugar Refinery (2015)