1818 Lasalle Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403, USA

George R. Newell House - National Register of Historic Places

Statement of Significance:
George Newell was born in New York in 1845, the son of a dry goods merchant. In 1866 he moved west and for a time clerked on a Mississippi steamboat and in a Minneapolis located hotel and retail grocery store. In 1870 he entered the grocery jobbing firm of Stevens, Morse & Newell. Newell later merged with Hugh G. Harrison in 1872 which marked the beginning of a pioneer firm that was destined to become an outstanding factor in the business of supplying food products to the Northwest.

After Newell's death in 1921 his son, L.B. Newell, ran the company. Several intermittent mergers led to the formation in 1926 of Winston & Newell Company which combined the two dominant wholesale food distributors in the Upper Midwest. In 1954 the corporate name was changed to Super Valu Stores, Inc. Today over one hundred years after George Newell entered the grocery business the firm he founded has an affiliation of six-hundred retail food stores; provides food and supplies to more than ten thousand restaurants, schools and hotels in twelve states; processes its own food products under the company label; distributes wholesale products and services to twenty-two states; operates one hundred retail, casual apparel stores in twenty six states and runs nineteen discount department stores in four states.

George Newell, pioneer grocery merchant, established a grocery firm that has been supplying food products and food services for over one hundred years.