The Cargill Superior Elevator

The Superior Elevator, as it was originally known, was built in 1915 by the Monarch Engineering Company for the Husted Milling Company, with A.E. Baxter as supervising engineer, to replace an earlier concrete elevator destroyed by an explosion. During construction, the Husted Milling Company became the Superior Elevating Company. The Superior was the first elevator in Buffalo built in winter rather than during the more favorable summer building season. It was expanded in 1919 and again in 1925. Cargill Corporation purchased the elevator in 1939 and used it as a transfer point between Great Lakes shipping and railroad lines to New York. Cargill continued to use it as a grain storage facility until the 1960s, when the Saint Lawrence Seaway rendered its Buffalo location obsolete. In 1953, the American Society of Civil Engineers selected the Cargill Superior Elevator as one of seven Western New York engineering landmarks.

Buffalo, New York · United States