page_title: Mentholatum
section_title: The Mentholatum Company Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Mentholatum / History / The Mentholatum Company Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: The Mentholatum Company Building, located at 1300 East Douglas in Wichita, Kansas. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: The Mentholatum Company, Inc. is a maker of non-prescription health care products founded in 1889 by Albert Alexander Hyde in the United States. It was bought out by Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., a Japanese health care company, in 1988. The Mentholatum Company is known for its top three products, Mentholatum Ointment, Mentholatum Deep Heating Rub, and Mentholatum Lip Care. The Mentholatum Building in Buffalo, New York was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
context_section_description: The Mentholatum Company Building, also known as the Garrett Leather Building, is a historic factory building located in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The original section was built in 1919, and is a four-story, reinforced concrete daylight factory building.  It has a rectangular plan and is eight bays wide by five bays deep and has a flat roof.  A one-story garage / loading dock addition was constructed in 1947 and expanded in 1966. The Mentholatum Company operated out of the building until 1997. The building has been redeveloped as an apartment building known as The Mentholatum.
  The Mentholatum Company Building at 1300 East Douglas in Wichita, Kansas is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register of Historic Places listings in Sedgwick County, Kansas). It was designed by Wichita architect U. G. Charles and built by the Wurster Construction Company in 1908. It is associated with the founder of Mentholatum, A. A. Hyde.
caption: Mentholatum Company.Building in Wichita, Kansas
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