Through the years
- About 1915The brick Farmer’s Bank stands on the northwest corner of Elm and 1st
- DepressionThe bank fails
- ThenThe Pioneer Telephone Company
- AfterInterstate, then Northern States Power, then Embarq
- TodayThom Agency
The story
About 1915, John Yetzer and his son Joe delivered ice cut from Lake Waconia to Julius Manteuffel’s bar on the southwest corner of Elm and 1st. In the photograph, the brick building on the northwest corner is the Farmer’s Bank.
The bank failed during the Depression. The building was then used by the Pioneer Telephone Company, followed by Interstate, Northern States Power and Embarq. Manteuffel’s bar has since been torn down; its site is a parking lot just east of the 1909 City Hall.
