In 1903, Marion Savage, owner of race horse Dan Patch purchased the old Industrial Exposition Building for his International Stock Food Company. Later the building was home to the M. W. Savage Co. , a mail order equipment supplier. The facility was so big clerks used roller skates to travel across the vast interior spaces on The building’s last owner, the Coca-Cola Company, tore it down in 1940 to make room for a new bottling plant, leaving just the northwest tower. The tower stood for a few more years as a remembrance of what was once one of the most prominent buildings in the city. The bottling plant was torn down in the early 1980s. The area was later a parking lot and is currently built up with townhouse condominiums.
