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Exchange room inside the Winona Public Library

The exchange room inside the Winona Public Library, ca. 1901. From a 1901 brochure produced by the Winona Public Library. Public domain.

Winona Public Library

Postcard of Winona Public Library, 1919.

In 1897, lumberman William Harris Laird offered to fund the designing and building of a library for the city of Winona. Two years later he presented this Classical Revival building to the library board. It is the oldest building in Minnesota built as a public library that continues to fulfill that function in the present day.

George W. Gardner home

The George W. Gardner home (later the Germanic-American Institute), 301 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, 1948. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press

Germanic-American Institute

Exterior of the Germanic-American Institute, ca. 2010s. Used with the permission of the Germanic-American Institute.

Nymore Bridge

Nymore Bridge, Beltrami County, Minnesota. Photographer unknown, ca. 1990s.

Nymore Bridge

Nymore Bridge #2366, Beltrami County, Minnesota. The first concrete bridge over the Mississippi River. Photograph by Dr. Robert M. Frame III, ca. 1980s