Minneapolis-based Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. (MS&R), known for its inventive approach to adaptive reuse of historic buildings and sites, designed the Mill City Museum for the Minnesota Historical Society. Situated along the Mississippi River, the Mill occupies the ruins of the former Washburn “A” Mill, a flour-producing complex. By the late 1800s Minneapolis became known as Mill City due to its status as the nation’s largest processor of wheat into flour, using the power of the adjacent Mississippi River and its Falls at St. Anthony. Embracing the site of crumbled facades, abandoned grain elevators, and other major pieces of industrial-age detritus, the design of the museum, which celebrates this past, is a beautiful, glass-walled structure carefully inserted into the ruined walls of the former mill.