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Burr Oak Savings Bank

Coordinates: 43°27′29″N 91°51′55″W / 43.45806°N 91.86528°W / 43.45806; -91.86528
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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 / 43.45806°N 91.86528°W / 43.45806; -91.86528
Built1910
Built byMcGee & Riceland
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.01000857[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 8, 2001

Burr Oak Savings Bank, also known as the Burr Oak Post Office, is a historic building located in Burr Oak, Iowa, United States. The free-standing, single-story, brick structure was built in 1910 in the Italianate style. Its primary decorative feature is a panel with corbeled brickwork in a dentil-like pattern, and the bracketed tin cornice above it. An addition was built onto the rear of the building in 1931. After the bank closed, the building was used as a barber shop and the post office, which closed in 1981. It is now the Visitors Center for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum and Park. 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.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Marlys A. Svendsen. "Burr Oak Savings Bank". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-09. with photos