"Eye-opening and superbly researched, Making Mill City traces the founding, development, and ultimate demise of what was the greatest flour milling complex in the world. Robert M. Frame III's significant work of scholarship will be the standard history of the Minneapolis milling industry for years to come."Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities and Once There Were Castles
"I knew that flour milling built Minneapolis, but Making Mill City introduced me to the whys and wherefores: the people like Cadwallader C. Washburn and John and Charles Pillsbury who kept building the world's largest mills, the technological innovations like middlings purifiers and roller mills that increased the output of the mills and produced the soft white flour that the country's housewives loved, and the larger economic forces at work that made Minneapolis the flour capital of the world in the 1890s but brought its demise in the 1930s. This book is a richly illustrated tour de force!"Linda Mack, former architecture critic, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Like visitors who flocked to tour the flour mills of Minneapolis over a century ago, readers will be fascinated by the grand scale of the mills and their technological triumphs. Robert M. Frame III provides a compelling mix of global context and local detail while following the grain from the farm to the flour sack and the city's path to global fame."Doug Hoverson, author of The Drink That Made Wisconsin Famous: Beer and Brewing in the Badger State
