Welcome to Watertower Place in the heart of the Grove in historic downtown Pueblo, Colorado USA.
Emmett Nuckolls and his son G. H. Nuckolls opened Nuckolls Packing Co. in 1891 near the Union stock yards, about one-half mile east of Bessemer Junction station.
In 1915 the family hired Hans Peter Henschien to design one of the world's most sophisticated meat packing facilities using his 'rational factory' theory. According to the Pueblo Chieftain, the cost of construction was $300,000 and the project located on So Santa Fe Avenue took a year to complete.
The plant, located on six acres just southeast of the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk of Pueblo, enjoyed a trade that extended as far south as Houston, Texas, well into eastern Kansas, and all through Colorado and New Mexico and Arizona.
Enjoy the 'future of the past' in the former meat packing plant where the arc of ideation begins when you enter Watertower Place.