Owatonna

The National Farmers' Bank of Owatonna, Minnesota is a bank building designed by Louis Sullivan with decorative elements by George Elmslie. It was... built in 1908, and was the first of Sullivan's "jewel boxes". The building is clad in red brick with green terra cotta bands, and features two large arches. Internal elements include two stained glass windows designed by Louis J. Millet, a mural by Oskar Gross, and four immense cast iron electroliers designed by George Grant Elmslie and cast by Winslow Brothers Company . The bank was remodeled in 1940, and many of the interior architectural elements were destroyed. Subsequent work in 1958 and from 1976 to 1981 restored it to its original grandeur. On January 7, 1976 it was recognized as a National Historic Landmark for its architectural significance. It is located at the northeast corner of Broadway Street and Cedar Street in Owatonna and is now a Wells Fargo banking store.
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The Minnesota State School for Dependent and Neglected Children was located in Owatonna, Minnesota from 1886 to 1945. During those years, it was home... to a total of 10,635 children who were orphans or had been abused or abandoned. Both the administration building and school are on the National Register of Historic Places. The Minnesota State Public School Orphanage Museum is located on the former State School grounds. Visitors can learn about the history of the school and the orphans, watch a 1930s video about the children and walk the grounds. Several former residents have written memoirs of their time at the school. In recent years, the State School cemetery has been restored.
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E. G. Marshall was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s and as... neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s. Among his film roles he is perhaps best known as the unflappable "Juror #4" in Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama, 12 Angry Men . Marshall was born Everett Eugene Grunz in Owatonna, Minnesota, the son of Hazel Irene and Charles G. Grunz . He attended both Carleton College and the University of Minnesota. During his life, he chose not to reveal what "E. G." stood for, telling most people it stood for "Everybody's Guess". Although most familiar for his later television and movie roles, E. G. Marshall also had a distinguished Broadway career, having appeared in original New York productions of The Skin of Our Teeth and The Iceman Cometh and having had lead roles in The Crucible and Waiting for Godot.
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Craig Minowa is the singer/songwriter/frontman for the alternative rock band, Cloud Cult. He is also the founder of Earthology Records. Minowa was... born Craig Richardson in February 1973. Minowa grew up in Owatonna, Minnesota, along with Sean Tillman . Minowa is the middle child. He has two sisters, one older, Melanie, and one younger, Janelle. His father is an accountant and his mother is a nurse. All three siblings are very artistic. Minowa has a large tattoo of a tree on his calf that he designed himself. Minowa met his wife, Connie Staska, when his younger sister brought Connie home after school one day. The two adopted the last name "Minowa" when they married in 1998. Connie paints live on stage during Cloud Cult shows. Minowa was in two bands in high school, Counterpoint and Eden's Ashes, both with current band member Scott West, who also paints on stage. Another band member, guitarist Joshua Lukkes, currently performs in a band in Racine, Wisconsin, called Big Wish. Self-taught drummer for Counterpoint and Eden's Ashes, Jeffrey Du Vernay, gave up professional music for academia. He holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of South Florida.
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Eugene Gericke was an actor.