Washburn Crosby Company Elevators No. 2 & 3, 900 & 1000 Second Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN
Summary
Significance: It was designed and built with a large and innovative unloading and grain weighing facility for railroad boxcars. The large storage capacity allowed the parent company, Washburn Crosby (WCCO), to maintain an ever-expanding flour-milling operation at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis. Washburn Crosby was one of the world's largest milling firms and became the central unit in the formation of General Mills, Inc., in 1928...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N512
Survey number: HAER MN-92
Tags
grain elevators
minneapolis minn
washburn
crosby
elevators
washburn crosby company elevators
second avenue
minneapolis
hennepin
hennepin county
minnesota
historic american engineering record
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
library of congress
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Minneapolis (Minn.)
,
44.97280, -93.27199
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html