Hutchinson Produce Company was a fixture on Main Street from 1889 to 1991. Note the early truck in the photo.
Constructed: 1889
Hutchinson Produce began in 1889 as a small store handling farm produce. It carried an advertisement in the Leader each week listing prices it was paying for eggs (9.5 cents per dozen, dressed hens (6 cents), geese, turkeys and ducks, salted and unsalted butter, wool and even furs.
Torn down: July 11, 1991
Location: East side of Main Street North between First and Second Avenues North (currently Shopko parking lot)
Hutchinson Produce above is part of a 20-week series of Lost Hutchinson buildings. Watch the Tuesday print edition for more information about Hutchinson Produce. If any readers have other photos, renderings or information about this building, please post them here or send them to: Hutchinson Leader, 36 Washington Ave. W., Hutchinson, MN 55350.
A collection of information published in the Lost Hutchinson series as well as reader submitted photos and remembrances will be published in a magazine later this year.
If you missed the Lost Hutchinson series last week, click on the link below for the Bell Tower School.