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Diessner’s Drug Store

A drug store downstairs, and Dr. Harold Nagel’s 10-bed hospital upstairs.

100 West 1st Street, 2020
100 West 1st Street, About 1938
About 19382020

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Through the years

  1. About 1938Diessner’s Drug Store on the ground floor
  2. About 1938Dr. Harold Nagel’s 10-bed hospital upstairs, in rooms beside his office
  3. 1954A community association takes over the 27-bed Nagel Hospital
  4. 1963Waconia Ridgeview Hospital opens on 27 July

The story

About 1938, Diessner’s Drug Store filled the ground floor. Upstairs, in rooms beside his office over the drug store, Dr. Harold Nagel ran a 10-bed hospital.

Nagel’s hospital grew. A community association took over the 27-bed Nagel Hospital in 1954, and Waconia Ridgeview Hospital opened on 27 July 1963. It is now Ridgeview Medical Center.

Do you remember this building?

Were you born upstairs, or do you remember the Diessners’ drug store?

Memories, names and family photographs go into the association’s archive, kept with your name and in your own words.