MON-FRI 10AM-6PM
SAT 10AM-6PM
SUN 10AM-5PM
532 Olive St.
342-6820
2498 Willamette St.
349-0556
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Farmers' Union Marketplace is a collection of two buildings located at 5th & Olive street in Eugene. Our building began it's life back in 1923 as the Lane County Farmer's Union Cooperative. The purpose was to process grain in it's wooden structure. The farm families built it themselves, as they would have their barns or out-buildings, with used materials and never taking out a loan to do it. They added two main additions to the building in 1932 and 1940. It has been used to process grain and sell farm supplies for over 65 years and, although the grain doesn't rumble through the chutes anymore, it hasn't changed much. As you wander through the store you can see the solid wood wall construction. In our furniture department (the tallest portion of the building in the middle) there are the overhead grain bins that form the ceiling of the room. Around the room are a series of wooden chutes used to empty grain into bags. By the exterior wall is still the old grain cleaning machine used to sift out waste from the grain before hoisting it into the grain bins via metal bucket elevators. The trademark of our building is the old Purina checkered logo painted atop the tallest tower of the building. It stands in stark contrast to the neighboring modern office buildings in downtown Eugene.
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