Building stories

Look for the plaque. Downtown businesses display a QR code that opens the story of their building: what it was built as, who worked there, and photographs from the association’s collection matched with today.

Scan one on your walk, or read them all here.

37 West 1st Street, 2020
37 West 1st Street, Early 1930s
Early 1930s2020

The Citizen’s State Bank building, 37 West 1st Street. A bank, then Carver County’s first funeral home, then a saloon, a tavern and a café.

Is your business in a building with a story?

The association can make a plaque or a window sticker for it, with photographs from the collection and a QR code that opens its page.

Thank you

To the businesses who keep these stories on their walls, and to everyone who scans one and writes in with what they remember.