Pre-Construction Documents: Exterior Masonry of Sauk Centre Blue Valley Creamery

The Pre-Construction Documents are an important stepping stone to the next step in preserving the building. After completing a Conditions Assessment on the Creamery Building which generated the scope and sequence of work needed on the building to convert the historic creamery building to a museum within the acceptable Standards of the Secretary of Interior Historic Preservation.  With the completed exterior masonry construction documents, they can begin the actual construction phase that will preserve the Creamery exterior masonry. That process in itself is part of the larger objective of preserving the entire Creamery structure for future public use as a museum.

Currently, the Sauk Centre Area History Museum is located in the basement of the Sauk Centre Library. The museum is at maximum capacity for records and artifacts and the Museum has outgrown its space. The Creamery, a National Register of Historic Places building, a building in a Historic District adds to the history of Sauk Centre and preserves some of the history of the rural farming community. Agriculture and Dairy Farming, in particular, is a large part of Minnesota's history. Preservation of this history is essential to understanding the roots and Sauk Centre's place in Minnesota history. The public will have access to the history of Sauk Centre's Dairy industry and the part the Blue Valley Creamery contributed to that industry.