Grain Elevator - Notable Grain Elevators

Notable Grain Elevators

During the Battle of Stalingrad, one particularly well-defended Soviet strong point was known simply as "the Grain Elevator" and was strategically important to both sides.

This is a list of grain elevators that are either in the process of becoming heritage sites, museums, or have been preserved for future generations.

Canada

Alberta

• Acadia Valley - Prairie Elevator Museum, former Alberta Wheat Pool converted into a tea house / museum.
• Alberta Central Railroad Museum - former Alberta Wheat Pool, second oldest standing grain elevator in Alberta, moved from Hobbema.
• Andrew - former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum.
• Castor - former Alberta Pacific, restored into a museum.
• Big Valley - Alberta Wheat Pool used as a museum complete with a train station and Roundhouse.
• Edmonton - Ritchie Mill, former flour mill converted into restaurants, law offices and condos.
• Ellis Bird Farm, built in 1937 oldest standing seed elevator in Alberta.
• Esther - former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum.
• Haselwood Mill Haselwood Inn Bed & Breakfast - Alberta's oldest seed cleaning mill, 2nd on the site, privately owned, not protected, operated from the 1930s to 1960's near Bittern Lake, Alberta
• Heritage Acres Farm Museum - restored United Grain Growers elevator moved from Brocket.
• Heritage Park Historical Village, former Security Elevator Co. LTD. moved from Shonts
• Kinuso - United Grain Growers with Original UGG Logo.
• Leduc - former Alberta wheat Pool saved from demolition now a museum.
• Lougheed - Former Pioneer Elevator now part of the Iron Creek Museum
• Mayerthorpe - 1966 Federal Grain Co. now an interpretive center.
• Meeting Creek, a refurbished Alberta Wheat Pool, Pacific Grain elevator and CN train station.
• Nanton - Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre, three elevators saved from demolition and preserved to educate visitors about the town's, and Alberta's, agricultural history.
• Radway - Krause Milling Co. restored into a museum.
• Raley - oldest standing grain elevator on its original site in Alberta, built in 1909 maintaining many of its original features.
• Rowley - a United Grain Growers, and Alberta Wheat Pool elevators saved from demolition by locals and now fully restored.
• Scandia - Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum, 1920s Alberta Wheat Pool and stockyard now a museum.
• South Peace Centennial Museum, United Grain Growers moved from Albright.
• Spruce Grove - Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum, former Alberta Wheat Pool, now used as a Farmers Market.
• St. Albert - St. Albert Grain Elevator Park, a 1906 Alberta Grain Co. and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool Elevators now restored as a historic park.
• Stettler - 1920 Parrish and Heimbecker grain elevator / feed mill and coal shed, last to stand in Alberta now protected and restored as a museum.
• Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village - Former Home Grain Co. moved from Bellis
• Warner - Warner elevator row, last surviving elevator row in Alberta with a total of six elevators. Currently unprotected.

British Columbia

• Creston - former Alberta Wheat Pool (1936) and United Grain Growers (1937) elevators that still stand tall on the edge of the downtown core in the middle of the Creston Valley.
• Dawson Creek - restored and refurbished as a community art gallery.

Manitoba

• Inglis - Inglis elevator row, last surviving elevator row in Manitoba with a total of four elevators. Now designated and protected as a National Historic Site of Canada.
• Niverville - Western Canada's first grain elevator, erected by William Hespeler in 1879
• Plum Coulee - grain elevator refurbished as a restaurant and meeting rooms.

Saskatchewan

• Edam - former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool now a museum.
• Gravelbourg - Former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool saved from demolition and now a museum.
• Indian Head - experimental farm grain elevator refurbished as a Café, coffee house.
• Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum - former Victoria - McCabe moved from Mawer.
• Val Marie - former Federal and 1967 Centennial Saskatchewan Wheat Pool now museums.
• North Battleford Western Development Museum, former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool moved from Keatley.
• Wood Mountain - former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool now a museum.

United States

• Armour's Warehouse, constructed in 1861–62 on the north bank of the Illinois-Michigan Canal in Seneca, Illinois.
• Baltimore and Ohio Locust Point Grain Terminal Elevator, one of the largest grain terminal elevators to be constructed in the early 20th century, with a capacity of 3.8 billion bushels in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Bouton, Iowa's grain elevator, owned by Susan (formerly Flanery) & Michael Chris Brelsford, photo shoot location for the 40th Anniversary Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (2004).
• Bricktown, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is home to OKC Rocks, a former grain elevator that has been turned into an indoor rock climbing facility located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A, also known as the Ceresota Building and "The Million Bushel Elevator" was a receiving and public grain elevator built by the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company in 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Concrete-Central Elevator, built between 1915 and 1917 in Buffalo, New York.
• Ingersoll Tile Elevator, elevator constructed of hollow red clay tiles, located in Ingersoll, Oklahoma.
• North Dakota Mill and Elevator, largest flour mill in the United States, located in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
• Sheridan Flouring Mills, Inc., an industrial complex in Sheridan, Wyoming.
• Silo Point, was reconstructed into a condominium located in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Zip Feed Tower, tallest occupiable structure in South Dakota from its construction in 1956-1957 until its demolition in December 2005.
• Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, the first reinforced concrete grain elevator in the United States