Ceresota Building

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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ St. Anthony Falls Historic District. Minnesota Historical Society (2001). Retrieved on 2007-04-20.

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