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The Helmet Fitting Room inside the Green Bay Packers Headquarters.

Helmet Fitting Room at Lambeau Field

The Helmet Fitting Room inside the Green Bay Packers Headquarters.

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Steam rises from the Barry & Sewall Chemical Company complex in Northeast Minneapolis, a facility known for producing adhesives, coatings, and specialty chemicals for over a century. Illuminated by floodlights and framed by dense pipe networks, the site reflects the city’s enduring industrial infrastructure along the rail and river corridors. The hand-painted logo on the wall remains a remnant of mid-20th-century branding still visible across many older manufacturing sites in the Twin Cities.

Barry & Sewall Industrial Chemical Plant at Night

Steam rises from the Barry & Sewall Chemical Company complex in Northeast Minneapolis, a facility known for producing adhesives, coatings,…

Barry & Sewall, Chemical Plant, Industrial, Minneapolis, Pipes
A weathered metal sign mounted on a brick wall warns “NO SMOKING BEYOND THIS POINT,” its paint cracked and dulled by decades of exposure. Signs like this were once common in milling and industrial facilities across Minneapolis, where airborne dust from grain or manufacturing posed a significant fire risk. The hand-lettered typography and aged surface reflect a bygone era of factory safety culture, preserving a small but telling fragment of the city’s industrial heritage.

“No Smoking Beyond This Point” — Industrial Safety Sign

A weathered metal sign mounted on a brick wall warns “NO SMOKING BEYOND THIS POINT,” its paint cracked and dulled…

No Smoking, No Smoking Sign, Safety Sign
This view shows the rear loading and office entrance of the former General Mills Purity Oats facility in Northeast Minneapolis. Built during the city’s industrial boom, the complex once handled oat processing and packaging for one of the nation’s largest cereal producers. The structure’s painted brick walls, grain silos, and utilitarian layout are characteristic of mid-20th-century food-processing plants that supported the city’s reputation as the “Flour Milling Capital of the World.”

General Mills Purity Oats Plant Loading Area, Minneapolis

This view shows the rear loading and office entrance of the former General Mills Purity Oats facility in Northeast Minneapolis….

Factory, Flour Mill, General Mills, Industrial, Mill, Minneapolis, Northeast Minneapolis
Once part of the vast milling network that shaped Minneapolis’s industrial identity, this now-closed General Mills Purity Oats plant at 1201 Jackson Street NE reflects the city’s transition from global grain hub to post-industrial reuse. The modest brick complex, still bearing its original signage, served as a specialized processing site within the company’s broader cereal operations before its eventual closure. Its preservation offers a glimpse into the city’s enduring ties to the flour and oat industries that once defined the Mississippi River corridor.

Former General Mills Purity Oats Facility, Minneapolis

Once part of the vast milling network that shaped Minneapolis’s industrial identity, this now-closed General Mills Purity Oats plant at…

Factory, Flour Mill, General Mills, Industrial, Mill, Minneapolis, Northeast Minneapolis
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