Sweet Candy Company Building
1910-1911, Ware & Treganza, SLC

The Sweet Candy Company produced mouth-watering confections in this building from 1911 to 1998. Leon Sweet founded the company in Portland, Oregon, in 1892. He moved to Utah in 1900 and constructed this building in 1911. The Sweet Candy Company produced a variety of confections, including taffy, jelly beans, chocolates, lemon drops, and rock candy. Although operating at a new location, the Sweet Candy Company is still owned by the Sweet family today.

The simple, functional design of the Sweet Candy Company Building incorporates modest details on the pilasters dividing the bays and a dentil molding atop the fourth story windows. The large windows ensure plenty of light reaches the interior of the building. In 1920, the Sweets expanded the building south by four bays in the same style as the original.

In 2000, Tomax Corporation renovated the building to house the headquarters of its web-based software business. Tomax preserved artifacts from the building’s candy-making days, including a large copper candy kettle, in the basement.*

Located at 224 South 200 West in Salt Lake City, Utah

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Sweet Candy Company Building
1910-1911, Ware & Treganza

The Sweet Candy Company produced mouth-watering confections in this building from 1911 to 1998. Leon Sweet founded the company in Portland, Oregon, in 1892. He moved to Utah in 1900 and constructed this building in 1911. The Sweet Candy Company produced a variety of confections, including taffy, jelly beans, chocolates, lemon drops, and rock candy. The simple, functional design of the Sweet Candy Company Building incorporates modest details on the pilasters dividing the bays and a dentil molding atop the fourth story windows. The large windows ensure plenty of light reaches the interior of the building. The southern four bays of the building were added in the 1920s.