Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal

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caption = Looking across the Mississippi River at the headhouse and sackhouse.
location=266 Old Shepard Road Saint Paul, Minnesota
locmapin=Minnesota
lat_degrees = 44 | lat_minutes = 56 | lat_seconds = 20| lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 93 | long_minutes = 6 | long_seconds = 00 | long_direction = W
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built =1927 – 1931
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architecture=
added = July 21, 2004
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refnum= 04000721cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
mpsub = Grain Elevator Design in Minnesota MPS The Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal, also known as the head house (a six-story grain elevator) and sack house, sits on piers over the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was built between 1927 and 1931 as part of the Equity Cooperative Exchange and is a remnant of Saint Paul's early history as a Mississippi River port city. The Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

The structure is nationally significant as the first successful grain terminal elevator owned and operated by a farm cooperative in the United States. At one time the facility included 90 grain silos, a small mill, the head house for loading grain onto barges and train cars, and the sack house for sacking milled flour.

Currently the complex is unused and in serious disrepair. There have been plans to restore the buildings and turn them into a restaurant and interpretive center. The architecture firm [http://www.msrltd.com/ MS&R] has drawn up plans.

The Grain Terminal is located at 266 Old Shepard Road, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

More Info

* The urban explorer group Action Squad offers an [http://www.actionsquad.org/hh.htm inside look] at the Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal.
* The Action Squad also reprints a February 25, 2002 article from the "Pioneer Press" [http://www.actionsquad.org/gtaarticle.htm To raze or not to raze that old grain elevator] " by Joe Kimball.

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