A roofless limestone flour mill shell above Saint Anthony Falls, and the Stone Arch Bridge Joe Somebody drove across.
What Mill District looks like
The Washburn A Mill stands as a roofless limestone shell about seven storeys tall, its walls four feet thick at the base and tapering as they rise. is built into and around the ruin. The turbine pits and rail tracks from the working mill are still exposed on the site, along with two of its engine houses. A lit Gold Medal Flour sign stands atop the concrete grain elevator beside the shell, facing the river.
The curves across the Mississippi on a run of limestone arches, built for James J. Hill's railroad and closed to trains since 1982. Only a pedestrian and bicycle trail crosses it now, with the river running white over a dam just downstream. , the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi, sits a short walk upstream. Its face is a concrete apron built in 1952.
Second Street runs past the museum, its arched brick windows facing newer loft buildings and a condo tower across the road. , its lawn built up into a mound reached by a spiral walkway, sits south of the museum near the Guthrie.
The 's dark blue panelled facade faces the river nearby. Its Endless Bridge, a cantilevered walkway, projects out over West River Parkway toward the water.
Shot in Mill District
Twenty Bucks sent its floating dollar bill past the falls and over the 3rd Avenue Bridge in 1993, and Joe Somebody drove a car across the Stone Arch Bridge in 2001. The two crossings sit a few hundred metres apart on the same stretch of the Mississippi.
Saint Anthony Falls and the Stone Arch Bridge
Two river crossings a few hundred metres apart, one carrying a floating dollar bill past on camera and one carrying a car across a closed pedestrian deck.
Twenty Bucks, 1993
Saint Anthony Falls
The film follows a twenty dollar bill drifting through Minneapolis over several days, and one shot follows it along the Mississippi just above Saint Anthony Falls and over the 3rd Avenue Bridge. The falls and the dam below them sit at river level here, visible from the Stone Arch Bridge a short walk downstream. Street View
Joe Somebody, 2001
Stone Arch Bridge
Joe Somebody, a Minneapolis set comedy released in 2001, has its lead character drive a car across the Stone Arch Bridge. The bridge carried freight trains until 1982 and has carried only pedestrians and cyclists since, so a drive across it today crosses a closed deck rather than through traffic. Street View
Rochester's High Falls district sets brick and stone mill buildings above a waterfall on the Genesee River gorge, the same pairing of old milling fabric and moving water that sits at Saint Anthony Falls. Brown's Race, the old millrace along the rim, adds a working channel next to the falls. The Genesee gorge is narrower and the drop taller, so a wide shot makes the falls look bigger than Minneapolis has; keep the frame tighter on the brick facades for a closer match. Try searching mill buildings above a waterfall now.
Great Stone Viaduct in Bellaire, Ohio
The Great Stone Viaduct at Bellaire is a curved stone railway viaduct of forty three arches, built in the 1870s and now also a trail. Unstoppable shot there in 2010, and its scale and repeated arches look close to the Stone Arch Bridge from a similar angle. Bellaire's arches sit over dry land rather than a wide river, so a shot that needs open water in frame will not hold there. Try searching curved stone railway viaduct now.
Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia
Tredegar Iron Works keeps its brick ruins beside a river, the James, with rapids running past the way the Mississippi runs past the Washburn A Mill shell here. The site has been kept as exposed masonry rather than rebuilt, closer to a ruin than a restoration. Tredegar's walls run lower and more open than the seven storey mill shell here, so a wide shot needs a taller structure kept in frame to hold the comparison. Try searching brick ruins beside a river now.
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