Completed in 1905, the State Bank was located on the corner of State & Main Street with Unseth’s Rexall Drug store located on State Street. In between these two major businesses was located the Unseth & Bratlie Clothing store, later becoming Pickwick Clothing. The Westby Post Office was located in the northeast corner of the bank building on Main Street and upstairs were numerous real estate, law offices and the offices of numerous doctors. Today Organic Valley encompasses the entire building except for the part that is the Ole & Lena Kaffee Hus.
Shortly after this 1908 photo was taken, the building on the left that is protruding, was moved back to line up with the buildings on either side. Today this building houses the Midwest Natural Gas. The corner building was the Ramsland Drugstore until bought by O.A. Unseth in 1899. At the time of its demolition in the seventies it had been Goettel’s meat market for more than 50 years.
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