Burr Oak Savings Bank

Burr Oak Savings Bank – also known as the Burr Oak Post Office – is an historic building located in Burr Oak, Iowa, United States. The free-standing, single-story, brick structure was built in 1910 in the Italianate style.[2] Its primary decorative feature is a panel with corbeled brickwork in a dentil-like pattern, and the bracketed tin cornice above it.[3] In 1931 it suffered a robbery, being the first robbery in Winneshiek County.[4] That same year – as well as in 1941, 1955 and 1967 – the building underwent expansions. [5] After the bank closed, the building was used as a barber shop[6] and the post office, which closed in 1981. In 2014 it became the Visitors Center for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum and Park.[7] It is the only building that remains on Burr Oak's main street from a period of economic expansion in early 20th-century Iowa, based on agricultural production and land values.[8] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]

Burr Oak Savings Bank
Burr Oak Savings Bank is located in Iowa
Burr Oak Savings Bank
Burr Oak Savings Bank is located in the United States
Burr Oak Savings Bank
Location3608 236th Avenue
Burr Oak, Iowa
Coordinates43°27′29″N 91°51′55″W
Built1910
Built byMcGee & Riceland
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.01000857[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 8, 2001

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Burr Oak Savings Bank – Burr Oak, IA - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com". www.waymarking.com. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  3. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form" (PDF). www.winneshiekcounty.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-10-12.
  4. "First bank robbery in county history in Burr Oak". decorahnewspapers.com. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  5. "Buffalo Savings Bank". buffaloah.com. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  6. Jack, Zachary Michael (2016-12-28). Wish You Were Here: Love & Longing in an American Heartland. Truman State University Press. ISBN 978-1-61248-171-5.
  7. Hotel, The Masters. "Welcome to The Masters Hotel Home of the ingalls family 1876-1877". The Masters Hotel. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  8. Marlys A. Svendsen. "Burr Oak Savings Bank". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-09. with photos


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