Ceresota Building

Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A
(U.S. Registered Historic District Contributing Property)

Location:	155 5th Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Built/Founded:	1908
Architect:	George T. Honstain, Fred W. Cooley
Added to NRHP:	March 11, 1971

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

Front of the building

Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A also known as the Ceresota Building and "The Million Bushel Elevator"^{[citation needed]} 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.^[2] Today the building is a multiple tenant office building with 92,081 square feet (8,555 m²).

[edit] 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 on 2007-04-20.
^ St. Anthony Falls Historic District. Minnesota Historical Society (2001). Retrieved on 2007-04-20.

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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 on 2007-04-20.