Johnson's Creamery is a historic

creamery A creamery or cheese factory is a place where milk and cream are processed and where butter and cheese is produced. Cream is separated from whole milk; pasteurization is done to the skimmed milk and cream separately. Whole milk for sale has ...

building located at Bloomington,

Monroe County, Indiana Monroe County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Indiana. In 1910 the United States Census Bureau, US Census Bureau calculated the nation's mean center of U.S. population, mean population center to lie in Monroe County. The ...

. The original section was built about 1914, and is a two-story, rectangular, red brick building. Additions were made to the original building until 1951, and are all constructed of red brick with

parapet A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian ''parapetto'' (''parare'' 'to cover/defend' and ''petto'' 'chest/brea ...

s. The iconic smokestack dates to 1949. Johnson's Creamery vacated the building in 1987. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed on the

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in 1996. It is located in the Bloomington West Side Historic District.

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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Industrial buildings completed in 1914 Buildings and structures in Bloomington, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Indiana Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Indiana {{MonroeCountyIN-NRHP-stub