Albers Brothers Milling Company, Historic mill and office building in Portland, United States
The Albers Brothers Milling Company is a six-story structure of brick and reinforced concrete situated along the Willamette River waterfront. It houses milling equipment, warehouse sections, shipping platforms, and office areas organized throughout its industrial layout.
The German-immigrant Albers brothers built this combined milling, warehousing, shipping and office facility between 1909 and 1911; it is the oldest remaining flour or feed mill in Portland. The company had already left when the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and it was converted into offices in 1989.
The Albers brothers, German immigrants, ran the largest flour and feed milling business on the West Coast, with headquarters in Portland and operations in four states. The silos on the south elevation carry painted advertisements for the mill's own products, a sign of how the company marketed its flour and feed.
The building sits along the waterfront and is easily accessible from NW Naito Parkway in the industrial section of Portland. Following its 1989 restoration, it now serves as office space, so visitors will see it primarily from the street and exterior viewpoints.
The silos built into the south elevation carry painted representations of the mill's own flour and feed products, used as advertisements. The Albers name was also known in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the firm's grain elevator and neon sign stood at the foot of the Southern Pacific ferry pier in Oakland, now the Port of Oakland container terminal.
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