File:The Whitney (Standard Mill), 2nd Street and Portland Avenue, Mill District, Minneapolis, MN - 51780022492.jpg

English: Built in 1879, this building was designed by William D. Gray as the Standard Flour Mill. Originally four stories tall with a central roof monitor on the fifth floor, the building saw the addition of a fifth floor by the monitor being expanded to the full width of the building in 1881, and a new roof monitor, clad in metal panels, was added to the roof. The building was powered via a tailrace in a tunnel leading from the nearby Mississippi River, and was the first all-roller gradual-reduction flour mill in operation. Owned originally by Dorilus Morrison and E. V. White, the mill was later purchased by the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company in 1902, before being absorbed into the Standard- Milling Company. The mill was powered by the river until 1933, when it was electrified, before being shut down in the mid-1940s, with the building being utilized for warehouse and industrial production purposes until the 1980s. The building features a buff brick exterior with a primary facade along Portland Avenue, featuring four doric pilasters dividing the facade into three bays, arched windows, brick corbeling at the original 1879 roofline and extended 1881 roofline, and simpler side and rear facades that continue the corbeling around the two rooflines, with the later intervention of larger windows and balconies on the side facing the Mississippi River, and a postmodern lobby addition on the south side of the building along Portland Avenue that features a two-story portion recreating many features of the original building’s facade, and a tall elevator and stair tower that seems to draw heavy inspiration from Art Deco architecture. The building was converted into a 97-room luxury hotel known as The Whitney in 1987, which saw the cladding of the roof monitor in brick, addition of rooftop terraces, and construction of a postmodern lobby and elevator/stair tower to the south of the original building, and the open millrace to the rear of the building was covered, with the space converted into a courtyard between the the building and the adjacent Crown Roller Mill. In 2005, the hotel was converted into a condominium under the direction of Miller, Hanson, Westerbeck & Berger, which saw the alteration of the northern facade with the addition of larger windows and balconies, and saw the addition of a covered parking area underneath the plaza. The building is a contributing structure in the Saint Anthony Falls Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.