File:Ceresota Building (Standard Milling Company Mill), 2nd Street, Mill District, Minneapolis, MN - 51781089808.jpg

English: Built in 1908, this former grain elevator was historically known as the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A, or Standard Milling Company Mill, and was designed by G.T. Honstain. The building was built as a facility to store and clean grain milled in the adjacent Crown Roller Mill and Standard Mill, and featured a storehouse section in the lower portion with 57 brick grain bins, with a workhouse atop the storehouse at the west end, with metal conveyor bridges and a metal train shed for transporting grain into and out of the building. The building remained in use as part of the Standard Mill and Crown Mill operation until they shut down in the early 1950s, and remained in use as a grain storage facility into the 1980s. In 1987, the building was renovated for adaptive reuse as an office building, with the grain storage bins, conveyor bridges, metal train shed, and industrial equipment entirely removed from the interior, and a glass curtain wall was added at a new entrance on the north facade. The building features a buff brick facade with a large Ceresota Flour sign painted on the blank south facade, a decorative cornice made of corbeling and recessed panels, a central roof monitor with decorative end parapets and windows, a four-story workhouse atop the northwest corner of the building with window bays divided by pilasters and a decorative cornice with corbeling and a Renaissance Revival-style parapet, a one-story postmodern glass storefront at the entrance, topped with a copper roof, with a multi-story curtain wall on the north facade of the building at the entrance, and window openings punched through a somewhat hidden portion of the north facade adjacent to the Standard Mill to allow for the interior to receive more natural light and be feasible for usage as office space. The building is a contributing structure in the Saint Anthony Falls Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.