In the early 1990s, the city built a new, larger water tower. Instead of tearing down the old one that dates back more than a century, it was turned into a coffee pot. “It’s absolutely iconic ...

In 1985, the town decided to honor its founders by remodeling the water tower to resemble a Swedish coffee pot. The 60,000-gallon pot could fill more than 1 million coffee cups.

The coffee pot water tower dates back to 1902, and was actually in service until 1990. It now stands as a roadside attraction and marker that indeed, you have made it to Lindstrom.

Some people have mistaken the giant coffee pot design of the water tower for a tea kettle, because it's short and squat. And the reason that Swedish tour groups come to Lindstrom to see the tower, ...

Lindstrom is bringing steam back to its iconic coffee pot water tower. The city reached its fundraising goal of $12,000 to have the tower steam like it did decades ago. A fog machine will be used ...

The late Stanton native portrayed "Mrs. Olson" in a popular series of Folgers Coffee TV commercials. (A larger, 150,000-gallon water tower made to look like a cup and saucer was added in 2000 ...

T he first thing you see in the rural Minnesota town of Lindström is the giant coffee-pot-shaped water tower in the downtown area that represents its Swedish origins. Welcome to Lindström, known ...

And Stanton, population 629, loved its coffee pot water tower so much that even after it no longer could be used to hold water, residents in 2014 installed it as public art just a few feet off the ...

There’s the smiley-faced water tower in Freeport and the ear of corn in Rochester. The city of Lindstrom sold tiny replicas of its charming coffee pot-shaped water tower to raise funds to repair ...

The city's water tower is listed by World Record Academy as "The World's Largest Swedish Coffee Pot". Skyview 30 captured a bird's eye view of the city's iconic water tower first built in 1911.