Parker Building (Brainerd, Minnesota)

Parker Building
Parker Building, 2008
Location 623 Laurel St.,
Brainerd, Minnesota
Coordinates 46°21′21″N 94°11′57″W / 46.35583°N 94.19917°W / 46.35583; -94.19917Coordinates: 46°21′21″N 94°11′57″W / 46.35583°N 94.19917°W / 46.35583; -94.19917
Area less than one acre
Built 1909
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Romanesque
NRHP reference # 80002025[1]
Added to NRHP May 23, 1980

The Parker Building (also known as Citizens State Bank) is a historic commercial building located at 222-224 South Seventh Street in Brainerd, Minnesota.

Description and history

The Romanesque style, three-story building was built in 1909 by the Parker-Dunn Corporation, mainly to serve the 1889-organized Citizens State Bank (Charles N. Parker was vice president), but it was also home to a piano store and, in its basement, a barber shop.[2] It was deemed significant "as a virtually unaltered example of the commercial block style from the turn-of-the-[20th]-century era".[2]

Since 1984, it has housed E.L. Menk Jewelers, whose website has some interesting historical information about the building:

“In 1920, Con O’Brien bought the building, apparently for 45,000.00. In 1924, the bank across the street to the south failed. One local story is that Con O’Brien had a son that was the black sheep of the family who showed up at his dad’s office in the middle of the day and told his dad that he was fired from the Citizens bank. Con then canceled the banks lease and the bank moved across the street in 1927.

In the early 1980’s Jon Rappaport bought the building and land on a contract for deed. The upper two floors have been unoccupied since the winter of 1983 because the boiler system failed. Mr. Rappaport turned back the building in early 1988. At that time Ed and Susan Menk bought the building. Since then the main floor has been occupied by various businesses.”

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1980.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Robert M. Frame III (March 19, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Parker Building / Citizens State Bank". National Park Service. Retrieved September 5, 2016. with four photos (from 1979 and historic)


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