The images in this collection document the demolition of the Cargill grain elevator on the east side of Front Street in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Beginning on July 18, 2005, nine grain silos were demolished to make room for the headquarters of Logistics Health, Inc. Two additional smaller silos on the west side of Front Street were scheduled for demolition in late 2005, but this did not occur until March 2006.
Cargill, Inc. is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of the silos was marked “Agri Grain Marketing,” which was a joint venture of seventeen years between AGRI Industries of Des Moines, Iowa, and Cargill, Inc., and was terminated on March 1, 2004. Ownership of the elevators reverted back to Cargill, Inc.
The images are on nine cds in jpeg format, averaging 2.8 M of space each. There is not a complete set of prints to correspond with images on the cds, although a few photographs have been printed as examples.
