Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator is the world's first known cylindrical concrete grain elevator. Louis Park, Minnesota, United States, as an experiment to prove the design was viable.”
Wikipedia article Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 1978 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. MN 7 and MN 100, St. Louis Park, 55416
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. structure
City. St. Louis Park city
Architect. Charles F. Haglin
National Register reference number. 78001547 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
North Central Aggregate Pit	Bentonite	Producer
Highway 18 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hopkins Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Depot	0.8 miles	1969
Jonathan Taylor Grimes House	1.6 miles	1976
Frieda and Henry J. Neils House	1.7 miles	2004
Loren L. Chadwick Cottages	1.7 miles	1984
Calhoun Beach Club	1.8 miles	2003
Linden Hills Branch Library	1.9 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001547 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hennepin County	All 192 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.