Milroy State Bank Building

The Milroy State Bank Building is located in the small town of Milroy, Minnesota at the intersection of Superior Street and Euclid Avenue (Minnesota State Highway 68). The building was a former community bank built in 1902 by a group of businessmen from Springfield, Minnesota. It is nearly identical to the Clements State Bank Building in Clements, Minnesota representing the commercial investment of outsiders in a string of towns platted on a new railroad line, the Chicago and North Western Railway.[1]

Milroy State Bank Building
Milroy State Bank Building in 1909
LocationMilroy, Minnesota
Coordinates44°25′08″N 95°33′14″W
Built1902[1]
ArchitectUnknown
Architectural styleQueen Anne, Richardsonian[2]
NRHP reference No.80002137[3]
Added to NRHPAugust 11, 1980

The bank closed in 1930, and was used for several purposes including a doctors office, and a bank exchange. It was the post office of Milroy from 1951 until 1989 when a new post office was built. In 1980, the building was put on the National Register of Historic Places along with several other buildings in Redwood County, Minnesota.

Throughout the years the building stood abandoned, sitting unheated and the roof had also collapsed. In 2009 a local, Sunny Ruthchild bought the building and put on a new roof, redid the floors inside, put in high-efficiency windows and a geothermal heat pump. The upper part of the building is currently being used as a housing tenement and the lower part currently sits empty. However, there has been plans to turn it into a bakery or Café.[4][5]

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Redwood County, Minnesota

References
  1. "Milroy State Bank NRHP Nomination" (PDF). Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  2. Nord, Mary (2003). National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 0873517458. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  3. "National Register of Historic Places". National Park Service. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. Posz, Eric (June 24, 2009). "Heat from the earth". Redwood Falls Gazette. Gatehouse Media, Inc. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  5. Gau, Deb (September 28, 2008). "One piece at a time (Cached)". Marshall Independent. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
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