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The Charles H. Burwell House is a historic house museum in Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States, built in 1883.Charles H. Burwell (1838–1917) was the secretary and manager of the Minnetonka Mills Company, the first mill west of Minneapolis, around which grew the first permanent Euro-American settlement in Hennepin County west of Minneapolis.
In addition to the 1898 mill, which was expanded to three stories in 1912, the complex consisted of an attached brick powerhouse, the adjacent miller's house built in 1900, and a disused freestanding brick smokestack. [5] It was the last remaining 19th-century mill in use in Minnesota. [6]
Mill City Museum is located in the ruins of the Washburn "A" Mill next to Mill Ruins Park on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.The museum, an entity of the Minnesota Historical Society that opened in 2003, focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling and the other industries that used hydropower from Saint Anthony Falls.
Some of the original mills above the park have been converted into other uses such as condominiums and modern offices. 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.
This mill complex was the second-largest flour mill in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The original mill was built in 1874 by Cadwallader C. Washburn, but destroyed in an explosion in 1878, killing 18. The mill was later rebuilt, and for nearly 50 years, the Washburn "A" Mill was the most technologically advanced and the largest mill in the world.
Headquarters 1942–1968 of Minnesota's first and most influential chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous, based in an 1887 house with 1916 and 1950 additions. [9] 4: Ames-Florida House: Ames-Florida House: October 16, 1979 : 8131 Bridge St. Rockford
The Terrace Mill Historic District consists of the 1903 mill, 1903 Stone Arch Bridge, 1915 Steel Beam Highway Bridge, Mill Dam possibly dating to 1882, and 1930 Miller's House. The historic district is significant for exemplifying the small, rural milling operations once common in Minnesota, particularly for retaining all the elements of a ...
1853 Greek Revival house of influential fur trader Alexander Faribault; the first wood-frame house built in Rice County. [40] Now managed by the Rice County Historical Society. [41] 35: Farmer Seed and Nursery Company: Farmer Seed and Nursery Company: April 6, 1982 : 818 Fourth Street NW.