1913

Red Brick Warehouse No. 1 completed

Construction of Warehouse No.1 was started in 1908 (Meiji 41) and finished in 1913 (Taisho 2). The completed Red Brick Warehouse was a state-of-the-art, world-class warehouse fitted with Japan’s first cargo elevator along with sprinklers and fireproof doors. A quakeproof reinforced brick construction method was adopted, the then leading-edge technique of embedding steel material into bricks. All the bricks were made in Japan, nearly 3.18 million of which were used in Warehouse No.2 alone. Incorporating such new technologies, the two buildings were completed as model warehouses for Japan.

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  Building No.1 upon construction
  (Port of Yokohama collection)

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  Building No.1 upon construction