Built in the nineteenth century at the behest of Giovanni Stucky, entrepreneur and financier of a noble Swiss family. The owner's intention was to build a mill that would exploit the Venetian canal to transport grain quickly to the island of Giudecca; this building gave work, at full capacity, to more than 1500 workers and was able to grind, in the period of greatest efficiency, more than two thousand quintals of flour a day.
In about 1895 it was enlarged and modified by the architect Wullekopf giving it the appearance of today, inserting the name of the owner, Stucky, surmounted
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