Burr Oak Savings Bank
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| Location | 3608 236th Avenue Burr Oak, Iowa |
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| Coordinates | 43°27′29″N 91°51′55″W / 43.45806°N 91.86528°W |
| Built | 1910 |
| Built by | McGee & Riceland |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 01000857[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 8, 2001 |
Burr Oak Savings Bank – also known as the Burr Oak Post Office – is an historic building located in Burr Oak, Iowa, United States. The free-standing, single-story, brick structure was built in 1910 in the Italianate style.[2] Its primary decorative feature is a panel with corbeled brickwork in a dentil-like pattern, and the bracketed tin cornice above it.[3] In 1931 it suffered a robbery, being the first robbery in Winneshiek County.[4] That same year – as well as in 1941, 1955 and 1967 – the building underwent expansions. [5] After the bank closed, the building was used as a barber shop[6] and the post office, which closed in 1981. In 2014 it became the Visitors Center for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum and Park.[7] 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.[8] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]
