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Vermeer Mill

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Contact

714, East 1st Street, Iowa

+1 (641) 620-9463

pellahistorical.org

Description

When you visit us at the Vermeer Windmill, you're visiting one of the tallest working windmills in North America! Designed and built by Lukas Verbij in Hoogmade, the Netherlands, the mill was de-assembled, shipped to Iowa, and re-assembled here in Pella in 2002. Named after the Harry and Bernice Vermeer family, whose dream it was to have a mill in Pella, the Vermeer Mill is an 1850s-style 'koren mill' or grain mill. Almost every small town in the Netherlands has a mill at its center; this is our nod to Pella's agricultural past. When you visit the Vermeer Windmill, you'll tour five floors, from the base of the mill where grain would have been brought in, to the top floor where grain is milled. Take in the giant blades and the superb view of Pella from the deck!