Editing Grain elevator (section)

==Notable grain elevators==
This is a list of grain elevators that are either in the process of becoming [[heritage sites]] or [[museum]]s, or have been preserved for future generations.

===Canada===

====Alberta====
[[File:UCHV elevator.jpg|thumb|upright|Home Grain Co. wooden cribbed elevator at the [[Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village]] in [[Alberta]]]]
[[File:Scandia 002a.jpg|thumb|upright|Alberta Wheat Pool elevator Ltd. wooden cribbed elevator at the [[Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum]] in [[Scandia, Alberta]]]]

* [[Acadia Valley, Alberta|Acadia Valley]] – [[Prairie Elevator Museum]], former [[Alberta Wheat Pool]] converted into a [[tea house]] and museum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdacadia.ab.ca/av.htm |title=Acadia Valley elevator |date=2009-08-16 |access-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816195647/http://www.mdacadia.ab.ca/av.htm |archive-date=August 16, 2009}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Alberta Central Railroad Museum]] – former Alberta Wheat Pool, second-oldest standing grain elevator in Alberta, moved from [[Maskwacis|Hobbema]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abcentralrailway.com/ |title=Alberta Central Railroad Museum |publisher=Abcentralrailway.com |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Castor, Alberta|Castor]] – former Alberta Pacific, restored into a museum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.albertasource.ca/carmn/museums/m_cdm.html |title=Castor elevator |publisher=Albertasource.ca |date=2010-12-08 |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>
* [[Big Valley, Alberta|Big Valley]] – Alberta Wheat Pool used as a museum complete with a train station and [[Railway roundhouse|roundhouse]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Dean Tiegs |url=http://www.canadiannorthern.ca/BigValley |title=Big Valley elevator |publisher=Canadiannorthern.ca |access-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003121527/http://www.canadiannorthern.ca/BigValley |archive-date=2013-10-03 }}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Edmonton]] – [[Ritchie Mill]], former [[flour mill]] converted into restaurants, law offices, and [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rmlo.com/ |title=Ritchie Mill – Edmonton |publisher=Rmlo.com |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-date=2017-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730143615/http://www.rmlo.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Heritage Acres Farm Museum]] – restored United Grain Growers elevator moved from [[Brocket, Alberta|Brocket]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heritageacres.org/ |title=Heritage Acres |publisher=Heritage Acres |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Heritage Park Historical Village]], former Security Elevator Co. Ltd. moved from [[Shonts, Alberta|Shonts]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heritagepark.ca/ |title=Calgary Heritage Park |publisher=Heritagepark.ca |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Leduc, Alberta|Leduc]] – former Alberta Wheat Pool saved from demolition now a museum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leducelevator.com/ |title=Alberta Legacy Development Society – Leduc |publisher=Leducelevator.com |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Mayerthorpe, Alberta|Mayerthorpe]] – 1966 Federal Grain Co., now an interpretive center<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mayerthorpe.ca/visiting |title=Mayerthorpe elevator |publisher=Mayerthorpe.ca |date=2012-12-06 |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404224104/http://www.mayerthorpe.ca/visiting/ |archive-date=2016-04-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Meeting Creek, Alberta|Meeting Creek]] – a refurbished Alberta Wheat Pool, Pacific Grain elevator and CN train station<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canadiannorthern.ca/ |title=Meeting Creek elevator |publisher=Canadiannorthern.ca |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Nanton, Alberta|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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nantonelevators.com/ |title=Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Center – Nanton |publisher=Nantonelevators.com |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Radway, Alberta|Radway]] – [[Krause Milling Co.]] restored into a museum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.townlife.com/1/businesses/6220/289/Radway-Krause-Grain-Elevator |title=Radway elevator |publisher=Townlife.com |date=2008-09-24 |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224061206/http://www.townlife.com/1/businesses/6220/289/Radway-Krause-Grain-Elevator |archive-date=2016-12-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Scandia, Alberta|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, Alberta|Albright]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spcm.ca/ |title=South Peace Centennial Museum |publisher=Spcm.ca |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Spruce Grove]] – [[Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum]], former Alberta Wheat Pool, now a museum
* [[St. Albert, Alberta|St. Albert]] – [[St. Albert Grain Elevator Park]],<ref>[http://www.artsheritage.ca/heritagesites/ St. Albert Grain Elevator Park] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721075235/http://www.artsheritage.ca/heritagesites/ |date=July 21, 2009}}</ref> a 1906 Alberta Grain Co. and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool Elevators now restored as a historic park<ref>[http://www.artsheritage.ca/heritagesites/ St. Albert elevator] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721075235/http://www.artsheritage.ca/heritagesites/ |date=July 21, 2009}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}
* [[Stettler, Alberta|Stettler]] – a 1920 Parrish and Heimbecker grain elevator, feed mill, and coal shed, last to stand in Alberta, now protected and restored as a museum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boomtowntrail.com/communities/display_town.php?town=Stettler |title=Stettler elevator |publisher=Boomtowntrail.com |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-date=2012-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301120419/http://www.boomtowntrail.com/communities/display_town.php?town=Stettler |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village]] – former Home Grain Co. moved from [[Bellis, Alberta|Bellis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tapor.ualberta.ca/heritagevillage/ |title=Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village |publisher=Tapor.ualberta.ca |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>

====British Columbia====
* [[Creston, British Columbia|Creston]] – former [[Alberta Wheat Pool]] (1936) and [[United Grain Growers]] (1937) elevators on the edge of the downtown core in the [[Creston Valley]]. The two buildings were purchased by the [[Columbia Basin Trust]] in 2018. The wheat pool elevator was extensively refurbished and now includes an art gallery. The UGG elevator is beyond feasible conservation efforts however, and CBT has begun to deconstruct it in 2024, with care taken to re-purpose as much of the building materials as possible, including valuable first-growth timbers and historic equipment. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nelsonstar.com/e-editions?iid=f16f9c2c-8be3-45e8-bbaf-5061548f66c8&headline=V2VzdCBLb290ZW5heSBBZHZlcnRpc2VyLCBKdW5lIDIwLCAyMDI0&doc_id=240620102805-b4b05146e9fea20a53c1be1de3776f9e | title=E-Editions }}</ref>

====Manitoba====
[[File:Inglis grain elevators.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Inglis elevator row]], [[Inglis, Manitoba]]]]

* [[Inglis, Manitoba|Inglis]] – [[Inglis Grain Elevators National Historic Site]], last surviving elevator row in [[Manitoba]] with a total of four elevators. Now designated and protected as a [[National Historic Site of Canada]]
* [[Niverville, Manitoba|Niverville]] – Western Canada's first grain elevator, erected by [[William Hespeler]] in 1879<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WG8pspLIukMC&q=william+hespeler&pg=PA475 |title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography: De 1921 à 1930 - Ramsay Cook, Jean Hamelin |access-date=2013-03-28|isbn=9780802090874 |last1=Cook |first1=Ramsay |year=2005 |publisher=University of Toronto Press }}</ref>

====Quebec====
* Silo No. 5, [[Montreal]] – This grain elevator was completed in four stages from 1906 to 1959 and was abandoned in 1994. With the demolition of Silo No. 1 and Silo No. 2, Silo No. 5 is now, along with the Old Port's conveyor pier tower, the last vestige of Old Montreal's 20th-century harbour panorama.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=115142&type=bien#.XNbZCtNKjOQ|language=fr|title=Silo à grain no 5|website=Répertoire du patrimoine - culturel du Québec|access-date=21 November 2020|author=Laure Emery|date=2013}}</ref>

====Saskatchewan====
* [[Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum]] – former Victoria – McCabe moved from [[Mawer, Saskatchewan|Mawer]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sukanenmuseum.ca/frames.html |title=Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village & Museum |publisher=Sukanenmuseum.ca |access-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218030233/http://www.sukanenmuseum.ca/frames.html |archive-date=2013-02-18 }}</ref>
* [[North Battleford Western Development Museum]], former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool moved from Keatley<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/GrainElevatorStudy2010 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-04-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622031320/http://www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/GrainElevatorStudy2010 |archive-date=2012-06-22 }}</ref>

===South Africa===
* [[Port of Cape Town]] – once the tallest building in Cape Town, now restored to become the [[Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa]]

===Switzerland===
[[File:Limmat - Swissmill Tower Zürich & Migros-Hochhaus - Käferberg-Waidspital 2016-05-17 19-06-28.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Swissmill Tower]], upper [[Limmat Valley]] in the Canton of Zürich]]

* [[Swissmill Tower]] in upper [[Limmat Valley]] in the Canton of Zürich – {{convert|118|m|ft|abbr=on|0}} high, rebuilt by April 2016.<ref name="limmattaler">{{cite web|url=http://www.limmattalerzeitung.ch/limmattal/zuerich/der-swissmill-tower-spaltet-zuerich-130228971|title=Der Swissmill-Tower spaltet Zürich|publisher=[[Limmattaler Zeitung]]|author=Florian Niedermann|language=de|date=2016-04-27|access-date=2016-05-19}}</ref>

===United Kingdom===
The [[Manchester Ship Canal]] grain elevator was completed in 1898.  It had a capacity of 40,000 tons and its automatic conveying and spouting system could distribute grain into 226 bins.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Otter |first1=Chris |title=Diet for a large planet |date=2020 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=USA |isbn=978-0-226-69710-9 |page=22 }}</ref>

===United States===
[[File:Wheeler Elevator.jpg|thumb|upright|Wheeler Elevator, Buffalo]]
[[File:Ranchway Feeds mill, Fort Collins, Colorado.jpeg|thumb|Ranchway Feeds mill and elevator, [[Fort Collins, Colorado]] ]]
[[File:Circle B Grain Elevator.JPG|thumb|right|Circle B grain elevator, [[Concordia, Kansas]]]]
[[File:Graincoop.JPG|thumb|Historic Cooperative Elevator, a row of corrugated steel hopper bottom bins on the left and cribbed annex bins on the right, [[Crowell, Texas]]]]

====Maryland====
* [[Baltimore and Ohio Locust Point Grain Terminal Elevator]], one of the largest [[terminal elevator|grain terminal elevators]] to be constructed in the early 20th century, with a capacity of {{convert|3.8|e9USbu|m3|order=flip|abbr=off}} in [[Baltimore, Maryland]]

====New York====
* [[American Grain Complex]], built between 1905 and 1931
* [[Cargill Pool Elevator]], previously named the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator was built in 1925 offered a total holding capacity of {{convert|2.1|e6USbu|m3|order=flip|abbr=off}} in 135 bins
* [[Concrete-Central Elevator]], [[Buffalo, New York]] – The largest transfer elevator in the world at the time of its completion in 1917
* [[Great Northern Elevator]], built in 1897 by the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railroad]]; demolished September 2022-May 2023.
* [[Wollenberg Grain and Seed Elevator]] – wooden "country style" elevator formerly located in Buffalo, New York; destroyed by fire in October 2006

====Illinois====
* [[Armour's Warehouse]] – constructed in 1861–62 on the north bank of the [[Illinois-Michigan Canal]] in [[Seneca, Illinois]]

====Iowa====
* [[Historic Ely Elevator]] - Also known as the Woitishek/King/Krob elevator and feed mill.  Constructed in 1900 in Ely, Iowa, and was in continuous use for 121 years.

====Minnesota====
* [[Ceresota Building]] was a receiving and public grain elevator built by the [[Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company]] in 1908 in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
* [[Peavey–Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator]], [[St. Louis Park, Minnesota]], built in 1899–1900
* [[Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal]], in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the NRHP

====North Dakota====
* [[North Dakota Mill and Elevator]], largest flour mill in the United States, located in [[Grand Forks, North Dakota]]

====Oklahoma====
* [[Ingersoll Tile Elevator]], elevator constructed of hollow red clay tiles, located in [[Ingersoll, Oklahoma]]

====Pennsylvania====
[[File:Philly Grain Elevator.JPG|thumb|upright|Reading Company Grain Elevator near [[Center City, Philadelphia]], now converted into offices]]

* [[Reading Company Grain Elevator]], export elevator in Philadelphia converted into offices

====South Dakota====
* [[Zip Feed Tower]], tallest occupiable structure in [[South Dakota]] from its construction in 1956–1957 until its demolition in December 2005

====Virginia====
* [[Sewell's Point]] grain elevator, export elevator built by the city of [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]] in 1922 to help the port of Norfolk better compete with other East Coast ports by providing a publicly owned facility to store and load grain at reasonable rates. It was sold to the [[Norfolk and Western]] railroad in 1929, and leased from N&W by [[Continental grain]] in 1952. The elevator originally held {{convert|750,000|USbu|m3|order=flip|abbr=on}} but was later expanded to {{convert|3500000|USbu|m3|order=flip|abbr=on}}. The elevator was taken over by [[Cargill]] in the late 1980s and abandoned around the turn of the 21st century. The elevator was demolished by [[Norfolk Southern]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pilotonline.com/business/article_350e6467-3fc7-5ee1-9333-6f17571b4a9f.html|title = From bust to boom: Deserted Norfolk facility to be exploded| date=2 August 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Southern States Cooperative|Southern States]] silos, a grain elevator in [[Richmond, Virginia]] originally built in the 1940s by [[Cargill]], and currently leased by [[Perdue Farms]] is the tallest structure south of the [[James River]] in the city of Richmond. The elevator was the site of the 3rd RVA Street Art Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.richmond.com/article_a9030e8d-8a9a-5996-b723-020d0947a8d9.html?mode=image&photo=1|title=RVA Street Art Festival headed to Manchester silos|date=12 November 2014 |access-date=11 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wtvr.com/2016/04/19/third-rva-street-art-festival-brings-flood-of-creativity-to-manchester/|title=Third RVA Street Art Festival brings flood of creativity to Manchester|date=19 April 2016|access-date=11 December 2016}}</ref>

====Wisconsin====
* [[Chase Grain Elevator]], tile grain elevator built in 1922. [[Sun Prairie, Wisconsin]] Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. It is the last remaining tile elevator in Wisconsin.

====Wyoming====
* [[Sheridan Flouring Mills, Inc.]], an industrial complex in [[Sheridan, Wyoming]]