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Old Posted Mar 23, 2018, 4:08 PM
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I might be the only one that defends them, but I absolutely love those mills and would be sad to see them ever go. They're landmarks, and the city's sense of place would be lessened without them. They're not beautiful in any traditional sense, but their scale is mighty and powerful and they're gritty and they harken back to our economic past unlike any other physical identifiers left in town. I was crushed when the P&H mill on the west side went down a few years ago.

Keep the mills!
Nope....not the only one. It is just not beautiful pieces of architecture from our past that should be preserved. Sometimes structures of our history should be preserved as well.

Hopefully, a few rural Grain Elevators (the sentinels of the prairies) will also be spared the fate of a wrecking ball.
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