{"id":303,"date":"2021-12-02T07:06:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2024-10-16T07:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:28:40","slug":"the-old-mill-of-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/the-old-mill-of-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Mill of Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Old Mill<\/strong> of Iowa, located on the Diamond Vogel campus, honors the Orange City-based paint company’s Dutch culture and legacy. In 1967, the Old Mill was built by Diamond Vogel’s founder, Andrew Vogel, after his retirement. The old mill`s design is based on windmills that were found in Vogel’s birthplace, Friesland, Holland. Andrew Vogel worked in his dad’s paint shop in Friesland until moving to America in 1913, and settled in northwest Iowa. With two little paint grinding machines in 1926, Andrew launched what might become Diamond Vogel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the organization’s number one\npieces of history in The Old Mill is a 120 year old paint processor that\nutilizes wind power. The Vogel Old Mill stands 50 feet tall with 16-foot sharp\nedges, which consistently pivot a counterclockwise way. This mill could create\nup to 20 gallons of paint a time. All the things inside the Vogel Old Mill are\noriginal or in regular Dutch style recreated with a\nsignificant number of the artifacts on display brought over from the Netherlands\nor gave by Andrew Vogel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Diamond Vogel is a leader in\nthe coatings business that serves an expansive cluster of clients and\ntechnologies. They produce paint and coatings for the mechanical, design,\nvaporized, modern wood, traffic, and auto business sectors while holding fast\nto Andrew’s simple mission of surpassing client’s expectation by conveying a\nquality solution. The Old Mill also known as Vogel Windmill of Orange City,\nIowa from this replica of a Holland mill have know how utilizing wind power,\npaint pigments were ground. The inside of the “Dutch Miller’s Home”\nis outfitted with antiques imported from Holland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time when Andrew\n“Pops” Vogel, the founder of Diamond Vogel Paints Co., resigned in\nthe mid 1960s, “he required something to do,” said one of his\ngrandsons, Doug Vogel, a co-owner and current Diamond Vogel leader. He added\nthat “So he got to working and he built it very great.”This great\nmill is the 50-foot Dutch windmill finished in 1967 that overshadows the\nDiamond Vogel factory. It highlights 16-foot blades that turn counterclockwise\non top of the mill to represent its purpose for grinding paint colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The burr stone grinder in the front\npart of the mill interior is 120 years old which was initially utilized in\nmanufacturing paint. The joined one-room miller’s home gives guests a look into\nthe past. It is furnished with antiques, some of which were imported from the\nNetherlands, similar to the walled-in beds and the cast iron pots that hang in\nthe fireplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some such antique is a desk with a\nperspective on organization headquarters. Pops used to sit at that work area\nand advise his grand-kids and anybody willing to listen about his life in\nHolland. Once in a while, Doug noted, he would share these stories on old seats\noutside the mill. He also said “During the Tulip Festival that is\nsomething that he mostly preferred to do. He’d sit at the mill and many people\nwould come. A lot of individual actually come and visit the mill. He just\nenjoyed the moment”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1896, by working in his dad’s\npaint shop in Friesland, Holland, Andrew Vogel learned the painting trade. In\n1913, the family moved to America. He before long understood that a\nconsiderable lot of the paints accessible at the time were inferior compared to\nthose his family had made in Holland. So he started to fabricate a red barn\npaint and white house paint in his garage. He wedded Jennie Reinders in 1919\nand began Vogel Paint and Wax in 1926. At the point when Andrew’s children got\nback from service in World War II, they got more engaged with the business, and\nPops acknowledged the time had come to turn over the reins, if not the paint\nbrushes entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The children were glad when Pops\nbegan the factory building project during the 1960s. In addition to the fact\nthat it kept him occupied, it let the children make the business their own. The\nmill itself hasn’t changed a lot throughout the long term, though. It went\nthrough a significant repair this spring, with the addition of some great paint\non it. \u201cHe was consistently out there in April preparing it finished up to go\u201d\nDoug said of his grandpa. “Indeed, even in his 90s, he would be out on the\nrooftop finishing it up.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A World War I veteran, Andrew Vogel\ndied on March 6, 2000, at 103 years old. His wife Jennie, who regularly went\nalong with him at the factory during the Tulip Festival, gone before him in\n1990. At the point when Grandpa was building that factory, the grandchildren\nall contemplated whether he was utilizing new nails or old ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With these kind of history the Old Mill\nof Iowa is famous for it`s tourist destination as it represents their past.\nHave you at any point wished you could visit Holland and perceive how they\nlive, the differences in their homes and how they make things? This is your\nchance to do precisely that without leaving the USA. Visit Orange City and see\neverything to appreciate in this more modest local area. Jewel Vogel Old Mill\nis open for self-guided tours during their regular business hours on Monday\nthrough Friday. Visit the Corporate Technical Center front work area and their\nstaff will be glad to help you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Old Mill of Iowa, located on the Diamond Vogel campus, honors the Orange City-based paint company’s Dutch culture and legacy. In 1967, the Old Mill was built by Diamond Vogel’s founder, Andrew Vogel, after his retirement. The old mill`s design is based on windmills that were found in Vogel’s birthplace, Friesland, Holland. Andrew Vogel … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[250,253,252,251],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-orange-city-iowa","tag-iowa-state-fair","tag-iowa-state-fair-entrance","tag-sky-glider-iowa-state-fair","tag-snakes-alive-iowa-state-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutchinnandsuites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}