Atchison's Stein Laboratories Building Razed
08/19/2013
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Stein Laboratories Building
Steinlite Corporation Employees

(KAIR)--It was a fixture of Atchison’s downtown for more than a hundred years, serving as the manufacturing and repair site for electronic grain moisture testers, from the early 1930’s to less than a decade ago.

Built in 1906, The Sein Laboratories Building at the corner of 4th and Kansas was demolished on Monday, as numerous people looked on.

Those witnessing the demolition included several employees, who now work at the company’s current headquarters at 1022 Main Street.(Play audio) 

That’s Dale Miller, who started working for the Steinlite Corporation in 1955.

Lab technician, Sheila Bruce, was also happy to see the building come down…(Audio Continues)

More recently the building was the site of Theatre Atchison’s “Night Terrors Haunted House”.