My Back Pages - Pioneer Steel Elevator

Fifth Street and Twenty-fifth Avenue, Northeast Minneapolis, circa 1975.

Left over from the heyday of Minneapolis milling, its then-novel design was by the Gillette-Herzog Company and constructed by the Barnett-Record Company in 1901.

It was owned by the local grain merchant George Frank Piper and ultimately demolished in 1995, the steel no doubt ending up in China, I can remember train loads of scrap heading out west at that time.

“But now… when that world is no more… the spirits rise up from the well of oblivion. People and pictures from a vanished world are reincarnated and assume a significance which was hidden at the time.” ~ Halldór Laxness, The Fish Can Sing