Van de Kamp Bakery Building, former bakery headquarters in Glassell Park, Los Angeles, United States
The Van de Kamp Bakery Building is a factory structure in Glassell Park designed to resemble Dutch farmhouses from the 16th century. The structure features decorative gables and brickwork typical of Dutch architectural traditions.
The structure was built in 1930 as the headquarters for a bakery company that operated for decades. Financial difficulties led to the company's closure in the 1990s, ending its original use.
The building's Dutch farmhouse look comes from the chain's branding: Van de Kamp's shops were known for windmill-topped designs, and an early Van de Kamp's store with that windmill style once stood next door. The bakery closed in October 1990 after the company filed for Chapter 11; the site is now leased to the Alliance Leichtman-Levine Family Foundation Environmental Science High School.
The building sits in Glassell Park and is easily visible from the street in the neighborhood. The interior is not open to regular visitors, but the exterior details can be clearly appreciated from the sidewalk.
The rear warehouse, demolished between November 2003 and January 2004, had a rail spur where goods were loaded onto trucks and railcars. That section appeared in Gregg Araki's 1997 film Nowhere and in Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed, both filmed in 1997.
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