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The Austin Biscuit Company opened its first Boston factory in 1906 at a brick building on 226 Causeway Street, in the historic West End, followed two years later with the opening of a new location on 176 Causeway St. This new biscuit factory, which cost $1.5 million in construction and new machinery, was “a six-story fireproof structure, with every conceivable improvement.” The building had 260,000 square feet of space and one-thousand windows. According to the Boston Globe, Austin Biscuit Co.’s location on Causeway Street was “an ideal situation…in the business part of the city, [and] handy to the railroad stations and steamboat landings.” Austin Biscuit Co. maximized the space with twenty-eight ovens on the top floor, large mixers, machines to shape the dough, and an assembly line of women and girls in the packing department (on the third floor). This efficient process allowed the Austin Biscuit Co. to create 300 styles of biscuits using 800 barrels of flour each day. The Globe lauded the factory, particularly for its openness to air and sunlight, as “one of the cleanest and best equipped in any section of the civilized world.”