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Victoria Grist Windmill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Victoria Grist Windmill in 2008
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Location	Memorial Park in Victoria, Texas
Coordinates	28°48′1″N 97°0′0″W / 28.80028°N 97.00000°W / 28.80028; -97.00000
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1870 (1870)
Built by	Otto Feik
Architect	F.G. Wittke
Architectural style	Tower-type windmill
NRHP reference No.	76002079
RTHL No.	14443
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 30, 1976
Designated RTHL	1962

Victoria Grist Windmill is an historic gristmill in Memorial Square in Victoria, Texas, United States. The windmill was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1976, and became an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Landmark in May 1991.

The windmill was built in 1870 and is probably the last remaining windmill of European design in the Southwestern United States. Standing 35 feet high and supporting four 15-foot blades, the Dutch turret-mill style windmill was constructed by German immigrant Fred Meiss, Jr. and Otto Fiek near Spring Creek. The turret-style allowed the top to be turned so the sails face the wind. The millstones were made in Germany, and Rudolph Witte brought them through the port of Indianola in the 1840s. The stones were capable of grinding 500 pounds of cornmeal a week. The walls of the mill are constructed of wooden logs and covered with shakes. In 1935, the Victoria Grist Windmill was moved from its earlier location (west of Victoria) to Memorial Square.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Victoria County, Texas
• Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Victoria County

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Victoria Grist Windmill". National Park Service.
3. "#151 Victoria Dutch Windmill (1840s)". American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

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