F-M developer works to transform historic Fergus Falls flour mill into boutique hotel

F-M developer works to transform historic Fergus Falls flour mill into boutique hotel

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. The Red River Milling Company is rising again in downtown Fergus Falls. This time though, it will be as a boutique hotel. Over the last 40 years, plenty of people have taken a look at the empty, unused industrial husk along the Otter Tail River, and figured that it was toast. Then Kevin Bartram checked in. Bartram, a Fargo-Moorhead area developer with a passion for saving historic buildings from bulldozers, bought th…