Life Savers Building a local treasure

7/6/2022 (Permalink)

A picture of the original Life Savers Building

The Life Saver Building  

We’ve all had life saver candy since we were kids. Life Savers were manufactured in the Life Saver building in Port Chester until 1984. If you were lucky enough to live around the building, you knew what day of the week it was just by the smell in the air. 

Peppermint, cherry, lime, orange, pineapple and coconut were all manufactured here and many of the old timers love to tell “conflicting” stories about what flavors were made on what day of the week.   

Life Savers Building is a historic commercial and industrial building located on North Main Street between Horton and Wilkins Avenues at Port Chester, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1920 and expanded in 1948–1949. 

 It served as a manufacturing facility and headquarters of the Life Savers Candy Company until 1984. It is five stories high and constructed of reinforced concrete, brick, and terra cotta. It features larger-than-life replicas of Life Savers rolls at the foundation line. 

 During its peak period of production in the 1960s, as many as 616 million rolls of Life Savers candy were produced each year in the facility. 

 It was converted into a condominium complex in 1989. The condos all sold quickly. Large and spacious with lots of natural light, not to mention living in Life Savers Building was a big draw.  

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] The larger than life replicas of Life Savers have since been removed. Still trying to find out what they did with them. 

We are SERVPRO of White Plains love the old traditional building in our community. Most people may not know where the village of Port Chester is, but when you tell them Life Saver Building is there it piques an interest.