Ceresota Building

Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A also known as the Ceresota Elevator and "The Million Bushel Elevator" was a receiving and public grain elevator built by the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company in 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The elevator may have been the largest brick elevator ever constructed (brick construction being relatively uncommon) and ran on electricity. The elevator was the source for the Crown Roller Mill and Standard Mill. Those mills closed in the 1950s but the elevator continued in use for grain storage until the mid 1980s. The building is a contributing property of the Saint Anthony Falls Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A
contemporary photo
Location155 5th Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Coordinates44°58′47″N 93°15′35″W
Built1908
ArchitectGeorge T. Honstain, Fred W. Cooley
NRHP reference No.71000438
Designated CPMarch 11, 1971
older photo showing the whole elevator
Possibly the largest grain elevator ever built of brick, Elevator A could hold one million bushels of grain.[1]
contemporary photo from the other side
Front of the building

In 1987 the elevator was converted to 92,081 square feet (8,555 m2) of office space. That required removing the vertical bin structure and creating floors without destroying the building walls. Before the conversion the building was documented to Historic American Engineering Record standards. Conversion was sensitive to the building history and the building is still a contributing property. [2] [3] [1]

About 2015 the building was converted to Millers Landing Senior Living. [4]

See also

Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company
List of contributing properties in the St. Anthony Falls Historic District

Notes

  1. Frame, Robert M. III, Jeffrey A. Hess (January 1990). "West Side Milling District: Northwest Consolidated Elevator A". U.S. National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record MN-16. Retrieved April 20, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) pg 1
  2. Coddington, Donn. "Nomination of the St. Anthony Falls Historic District to be on the National Register of Historic Places". (1971, 1991). US-DOI-NPS. Retrieved February 1, 2022. pg pdf 41
  3. Peterson, Penny; et al. "Architecture and Historic Preservation on the Minneapolis Riverfront" (PDF). March 2007. The Saint Anthony Falls Heritage Board. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
  4. DePass, Dee (July 8, 2020). "Owner of Ceresota senior-living facility in downtown Minneapolis files for bankruptcy". Minneapolis StarTribune. Retrieved February 1, 2022.

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