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The museum features exhibits about the history of Minneapolis, flour milling machinery, a water lab and a baking lab. The centerpiece of the exhibit is the multistory Flour Tower, where visitors sit in the cab of a freight elevator and are taken to different floors of the building, each designed to look like a floor in a working flour mill.
Mill Ruins Park is a park in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, standing on the west side of Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River and running from 3rd Ave. S. to about 9th Ave. S. The park interprets the history of flour milling in Minneapolis and shows the ruins of several flour mills that were abandoned.
Today, the Mill District has re-emerged as the historical and cultural center of Minneapolis. Many of the original flour mills have been saved and renovated into elegant loft homes and office spaces. The fortified ruins of the Washburn "A" Mill, once the largest mill in the world, has been transformed into the cornerstone of the Mill City Museum.
Location: 160 N. First Ave., Mill City. Description: More than three years after the 2020 Labor Day wildfires ravaged much of the Santiam Canyon, a new project is coming to Mill City with the hope ...
Mill City Museum; Mill Ruins Park; Milwaukee Avenue Historic District; Minneapolis Armory; Minneapolis Brewing Company; Minneapolis City Hall; Minneapolis Fire Department Repair Shop; Minneapolis Grain Exchange; Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery; Minneapolis Public Library, North Branch; Minneapolis Scottish Rite Temple
The long-standing mill silos dating back to the 1900s once produced roughly 35,0000 pounds of flour a day, but for the past 50 years have sat empty and abandoned.
First City Waterworks/Holly Flour Mill [1867- ~1920] Galaxy Flour Mill/Northwestern Consolidated "C" Mill [41] [1874, 1875, 1879-1931] Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Wheelhouse [1878- ~1960] Minneapolis Cotton Mill/Excelsior Flour Mill [41] [1870-1900s] Minneapolis Eastern Railroad Trestle Piers [1890-1962]
The existing mill was built in 1918 and the 10-story silos were added in the 1950s. According to the city of Tempe, there were other mill buildings on the site since 1874.