Milroy State Bank Building

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| name = Milroy State Bank Building

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| caption = Milroy State Bank Building in 1909

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| location = 501 Euclid Street
Milroy, Minnesota 56263

| built = 1902{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory–Nomination Form: Milroy State Bank Building |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/80002137|date=September 1978|website=National Park Service|accessdate=18 December 2020}}

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| architecture = Queen Anne, Richardsonian{{cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/nationalregister0000nord|access-date=18 December 2020}}

| added = August 11, 1980

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| refnum = 80002137{{cite web |title=National Register Database and Research |url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/database-research.htm |website=National Park Service |access-date=18 December 2020}}

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The Milroy State Bank Building is located in the small town of Milroy, Minnesota at the intersection of Superior Street and Euclid Avenue (Minnesota State Highway 68). The building was a former community bank built in 1902 by a group of businessmen from Springfield, Minnesota. It is nearly identical to the Clements State Bank Building in Clements, Minnesota representing the commercial investment of outsiders in a string of towns platted on a new railroad line, the Minnesota Western Branch of Chicago and North Western Railway.

The bank closed in 1930 and was used for several purposes, including a doctors office, and a bank exchange. It was the post office of Milroy from 1951 until 1989 when a new post office was built. On August 11, 1980 the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with several other buildings in Redwood County, Minnesota.{{cite news |last1=Elton|first1=Karin|date= February 25, 2017|title=A rewarding project |url=https://www.marshallindependent.com/news/features/2017/02/a-rewarding-project/|access-date=18 December 2020 |work=Marshall Independent|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226015708/https://www.marshallindependent.com/news/features/2017/02/a-rewarding-project/ |archive-date=February 26, 2017}}

Throughout the years the building stood abandoned, sitting unheated and the roof had also collapsed. In 2009 a local, Sunny Ruthchild, purchased the building for around $1,000 and renovated it which included improvements to the roof, restoration of the floors, and the installation of high-efficiency windows and a geothermal heat pump. The upper part of the building is currently leased as an apartment and the lower part currently sits empty with plans to turn it into a small business such as a bakery or café.{{cite news|last1=Posz|first1=Eric|date=June 24, 2009|title=Heat from the earth|url=http://www.redwoodfallsgazette.com/article/20090624/NEWS/306249985/0/SEARCH|accessdate=23 July 2014|work=Redwood Falls Gazette|publisher=Gatehouse Media, Inc.}}