800 Cannery Row, Monterey, California. County/parish: Monterey.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 29, 1994. NRIS 94001498.
1 contributing building. 3 contributing structures.Also known as:
Pacific Biological Laboratories, abbreviated PBL, was a biological supply house that sold preserved animals and prepared specimen microscope slides, many of which were of maritime aquatic species, to schools, museums, and research institutions. It was located in a building on what is now Monterey's Cannery Row on Monterey Bay in Monterey County, California.
The building, activities, and business were fictionalized as "Western Biological Laboratory" by John Steinbeck in his novel Cannery Row, as was a character based on one of its founders, Ed Ricketts. After a 1936 fire Steinbeck invested in the laboratory and owned half its stock.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859948