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Excerpt from Shredded Wheat Dishes Together With a Treatise on the Food Problem Location. On Buffalo Avenue, in the finest residence section of Niagara Falls, far away from the smoke of factory or railroad; occupies ten acres, or one entire block, with a frontage of 900 feet on the upper Niagara River. Buildings. Main building 463 feet long and 66 feet wide; four connecting portions; united structure covers an area of 55,653 sq. feet, or a total of 4,500,000 cubic feet; the building has a floor space of about 5 1/2 acres, and is finished in white enamel and hard wood. Use. The main building is devoted to the manufacture of Shredded Whole Wheat Biscuit and Triscuit; the center section contains administration and educational features; the grand entrance hall or foyer for visitors; the general offices of the Company; the lecture hall or auditorium, seating over 1,000, for entertainments, lectures and conventions; the girls' dining room on the fifth floor, overlooking the river, where the noonday meal is served free; the roof garden or observatory; and comfortably furnished "Rest Rooms" for men and women employees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.