Sturgeon Bay, WI: Depots andTeweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator Restoration

Elevator: (Satellite)

Depot information

An old grain elevator is being moved back to its original location on the waterfront to be restored as an event center and observatory.

Screenshot @ 2:20 of video on www.doorcountygranary.org

I have not been able to determine where the elevator was moved from nor when the move happened, but it appears that it has shown up on a satellite image already.

Satellite

In Oct 2018, this location was just a vacant lot.

Street View

Kelly Catarozoli posted five images with the comment:

Located in Sturgeon Bay, WI., the Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator was rescued by the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society. For the last 4 years we have worked so hard to get this grain elevator restored and are now in the beginning stages. This one is the last, or one of the last, wooden grain elevator located on the Great Lakes. It is in a location that gets over a million visitors per year which makes it a viable project. The images below show renderings from our architect. The blue stairs and passageways show how we will get the public to see areas of the grain elevator they haven’t been privy to in the past. A generous donor just put up a $100,000 match challenge. If you are so inclined we appreciate any support for this project. Please visit our website https://sturgeonbayhistoricalsociety.org/granary to donate. Thank you!

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Structures that are added to improve accessibility are painted blue to document that they were not part of the original elevator.

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Screenshot @ 1:32 of video on www.doorcountygranary.org

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Christie MacDonald commented on a post
For our restoration in sturgeon bay, to fix our rot bin areas, we bought lumber from the globe elevator months before it burned down.

May 2, 2024:

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Hello fellow grain elevator enthusiasts. I'm posting on behalf of the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation. We are in the midst of rehabilitating a wooden port grain elevator built in 1901. The Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator served as both a local and terminal grain elevator. As part of the interpretation of the building we'd like to have a grain elevator log book that was used to log the shipments of grain or any other related material to the operations of a grain elevator. You can read more about our project at the link below, scroll down to the bottom for the most current updates. We hope to be able to take people all the way up to the head house when completed. If you have any of these items, please contact us (details are on our website.) We'd love to have any items specifically related to this elevator but items from other elevators would help us complete the vision. 

We are also working on an inventory of grain elevators around the Great Lakes, if you have any information on existing wooden elevators that are located on the Great Lakes, we'd love to know about them and include them in our study. Eventually we'd like to work with someone or an interested group to inventory the grain elevators across the US.