American Trona Corporation Building

American Trona Corporation Building is an industrial building at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro. It was built from 1916-1917 by the American Trona Corporation of California to process and store salt potash from the company's trona mining facilities near Searles Lake in Trona, California, eastern San Bernardino County. The building originally included crushers, separators and a network of conveyor belts to process the potash. The building has approximately 25,000 square feet (2,300 m) of interior space on two floors and is said to be one of the largest still existing wood structural spaces in an industrial building on the West Coast. The foundation and interior walls of the first floor were built with reinforced concrete, and the...