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.

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.

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