Ceresota Building

	Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Location	155 5th Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Coordinates	44°58′47″N 93°15′35″W
Built	1908
Architect	George T. Honstain, Fred W. Cooley
Designated CP	March 11, 1971

Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A also known as the Ceresota Building and "The Million Bushel Elevator"[2] was a receiving and public grain elevator built by the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company in 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The building is a contributing property of the Saint Anthony Falls History District listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[3] Today the building is a multiple tenant office building with 92,081 square feet (8,555 m²).

Possibly the largest grain elevator ever built of brick, Elevator A could hold one million bushels of grain.[1]

Front of the building

Notes

Frame, Robert M. III, Jeffrey Hess (January 1990). "West Side Milling District". U.S. National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record MN-16 p. 1. Retrieved 2007-04-20.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Northwestern Consolidated Elevator A". Historic American Engineering Record: HAER No. MN-16: HAER MINN 27-MINAP, 25-. US Library of Congress. p. 12. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
"St. Anthony Falls Historic District". Minnesota Historical Society. 2001. Archived from the original on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2007-04-20.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.