“A miscellany of items about grain elevators around the world, focusing on history and heritage.”
Curated by
David Worth
Explore Buffalos incredible grain elevator district by boat on the Historic Buffalo River Tours this summer. Also visit Buffalos industrial heritage at the Col.
Industrial Heritage - This page focuses on Industrial Heritage around the world, looking at principles and practice, conservation, re-use and demolition. #industrialheritage... The demolition of the last of 5 grain elevators in the town of Carstairs, Alberta sped up 16 times. 
The story of Joseph Dart's historic and pioneering grain elevator.
"Grain Elevators: A heritage to be created" Nogent-sur-Seine, France 20-22 October 2011
This colloquium has been organised by Gracia Dorel-Ferre and APIC. The first dayfocused on elevators in France, and the second considered elevators in other parts of the world, including Canada, Tunisia, Brazil and South Africa. 
Grain silos in a flooded Mississippi landscape.
Aerial photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies. Surveying an old diesel elevator’s day-to-day operations, this ...
Interesting essay - touches on issues around Elevator #3 in "Old" Montreal
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Restored grain elevators in the ghost town of Rowley Alberta with a railway car in the foreground.
Cynthia van Ness compiled this list in her capacity at the director of the Research Library at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society.
Suggested by Cynthia Van Ness
An emblematic grain silo slated for demolition has been transformed into a one-of-a-kind opera house and theater. 
Spotlight falls on Buffalo's elevators and a lot more at 65th National Preservation Conference
SILOSYGRANEROS.ES: Web divulgativa sobre la Red Nacional de Silos y Graneros de España.
Art installation covering a vacant elevator in Omaha.
Lovely series of images online.
USA: The Art of Country Grain Elevators
Poems by Jon Volkmer and photographs by Bruce Selyem.
Looks well worthwhile, but with Amazon selling it new in paperback for $125, it's way out of my pocket. |
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