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1) This Queen Anne style residence at 620 Main St. features a wrap around porch, stained & leaded glass windows, and a grand open staircase. Built in 1902, it was originally owned by the Emmons family, for which the city of Emmons is named.
2) Built c.1914, this Craftsman style, four-square home located at the corner of Lake Street and Evenson Ave. features stucco exterior, a strongly sloped roof line, and dual gables. The home was owned by Nels H. Rasmusson (banker/bank president and Mayor of Emmons in 1905, 1906, 1915, 1916, 1920, and 1921). Click here for view of home while owned by N.H. Rasmusson.
3) The Emmons School, 479 Main Street, was built in 1922 and replaced a 4-room school house which once sat behind the current building. The older gymnasium was added around 1931. The school was closed several years ago and is now called the Gateway Center. The building is the current home of the Emmons Community Library. This building is currently for sale!
4) The Security Bank building at 201 Main St. was built in 1915. The brick structure was formerly named First National Bank and First State Bank. Dr. Nesheim (medical), Dr. Trombley (medical) and Dr. Johnson (dentist) once had offices upstairs. This building replaced a wooden structure that was located across the street at the SW corner of the same intersection. The wooden bank building was later converted to a residence and burned around 2001.
5) The Emmons Grocery building (closed in 2005) located at the intersection of Main St. and State Line Road was built around 1902. The building was originally the Thornby & Olson Store.
6) Gateway Park and the park roadway, located to the north of Emmons off of Hwy. 69, was completed June 30, 1904. Hitching posts for horses were once placed at various points throughout the park.
7) The Emmons Lutheran Church located at 490 Pearl Street was dedicated in August 1960 and remodeled in 1998. This building replaced an earlier church (built in 1902) that once stood on Main St. to the north of the Emmons School (#3 above) in the general area of the old wood shop area/parking lot.
8)Lair's 66, located at 222 Main Street, was built in 1929 by Clarence Madson. It was originally a Standard Oil service station. He added the two stall garage to the building around 1940. Paul and Lynette Lair have owned the station since 1994.
9) The original Emmons Fire Department building was built in 1901 as an addition to the City Hall building constructed in 1899. The building was razed in 1971 and replaced with the current building located on the same site at 221 Main Street.
10) The Emmons RR Depot building was originally located in Norman, IA about 1/2 mile south of Emmons. See the History section of the site for more information on Norman, IA. The depot was later moved to Emmons following a heated court battle. However, the depot was situated on the Iowa side of the state line due to a lease stipulation with the State of Iowa that required that the depot remain in Iowa for 100 years. The depot was moved to a farm located on 490th Street about a 1/4 mile east of Apricot after rail service was discontinued in the area. The building is clearly visible from the roadway. Nels Rasmusson and his brother, Albert Rasmusson, were early depot agents in Norman. Nels went into the banking business and Albert stayed on as a depot agent even after the move to Emmons. See #2 above for more information on Nels Rasmusson. Click HERE for an Albert Lea Tribune article on the history of the Emmons Depot.
11) Brick Building located at the NW corner of Main St./State St According to "Emmons Minnesota, A Century of History," "This picture was probably taken in the early 1900's. Over the years the building has housed a Theatre/Opera House, a Skating Rink, a Basketball Court, a Grocery Store, Beauty Parlors, several Cafes at one time or another... ...There was a hardware store for a brief period of time. The building has several upstairs apartments."
12) The Wayne's World building, located at 110 Main Street, was built in the 1950's. The current building replaced a grocery store and post office building that had burned. The current building was originally the Ernie Emmons Jack Sprat Grocery Store. Prior to Wayne's World, the building was Steve's Auto Body owned by Steve Kroupa.
13) Located at 5076 Apricot Ave, this building sits on the Iowa side of the state line across the Street from the Emmons Grocery building (#5). The building has served as a cafe, later as a pool hall, then as a private residence until the 1940's, followed by feed storage facility for the Emmons Hatchery, the Odegaard's Cabinet and Fix-It Shop, and then as an office for the Lee Lauen Garage. Later the building was used as the "Just A Bite Tea House" The building is now a private residence.
We need your help!Please email us with information on your Emmons home or building.Some ideas are: past owners, year constructed, how long you have owned it, any special stories or memories about your home/building, etc. We would like to include any photos you may have. Photos will be returned. If you have a lot of information you may even get your own page on this site.
