A mill constructed of 3 stories of brick, a stone basemment, and a frame attic.

Reinforcing rods ending in Cast iron stars on the outer walls. The home of White Lily Flour and Pure Buck Wheat Flour.

This side used to to the front of the mill, with the main road on this side of the mill. The stone icehouse may have been built after the road was changed. A pond used to be on the "now front" end of the mill. It was probably the headwaters for Laugherty Creek. It must have been drained, then the road changed.

The two story brick addition on the left front of the mill (today) was probably used as warehouse space. Notice the stars on the end of the reinfircing rods that run between the floors for strength and to keep the wall from bulging outward.

Faintly readable words on the front addition: E.R. Behlmer-Chick, Hog, Dairy Feed For Grains-SALT. Above and to the left of this is Napoleon Flour Mill.

Custom Grinding & Mixing. Highest Prices Paid for Grains. Coal, Salt & Oyster Shells.

A back view of the ice house, apparently recently restored. This mill was purchased 20 years ago for $15,000. The owner has recently been offered $200,000. It has been made into apartments. This statement was from about the year 2000.

The Napoleon State Bank, built in 1904, is a half block south of Bonaparte's Retreat on Sr 421.

Bonaparte's Retreat, a restaurant is about a block south of the mill on In 421. The current mill structure was built in 1879, owned and operated by John F. Heimsath. A Miss Barbara Fox, a Pioneer Lady Inventor, came to live in Napoleon in 1852 as a child. She lived next-door to the Railroad House Hotel, todays Bonaparte's Retreat. She received U.S. Patents for a fire escape in 1892 and in 1895. The fires escape was demonstrated on October 12, 1895 by having people lowered from the upper floor of the 1879 Heimsath Flour Mill across from the Historical Marker now in place.

The Elias Conwell House sits diagonally across In 421 from the mill on the NE corner of In 421 & Wilson Street. It may have been an early miller's residence. GPS: 39D 12.36'N, 85D 19.85'W ele 968'/295 meters Osgood Quadrangle

One large apartment on the top floor,2 apartments on the middle floor, one in the 1-story extension on the left side, and an air conditioning business on the first floor.