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 / 44.97972°N 93.25972°WCoordinates: 44°58′47″N 93°15′35″W / 44.97972°N 93.25972°W
Built	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"^[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).

Notes

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 2007-04-20.
2. "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.
3. "St. Anthony Falls Historic District". Minnesota Historical Society. 2001. Retrieved 2007-04-20.

This is the address used by Walden University

Further reading

• 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 2007-04-20.

External links

• Ceresota Building at Emporis
• Ceresota Building at Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development