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2015

Waseca Railroad Depot. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Depot. M & St. L Railroad Depot. Depot located at 231 West Elm Avenue occupied by Zinnia's Boutique. Photograph taken in September 2015. Zinnia's Boutique opened in 2007 and was located in the Depot building until the Fall of 2015. Zinnia's opened its doors at a new location Fall of 2015 located at 107 11th Avenue NW.

Waseca business: Zinnias. The Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Depot. This small, yellow Chaska brick building was a passenger depot built by the Minneapolis & St. Louis Lines. The depot, constructed in 1913, replaced earlier depots that had burned. It served passengers until 1959. The building, one of only two remaining passenger depots in all of Waseca County, was threatened with demolition after Depot Liquor closed in 2000. The Waseca City Council purchased the building, and the Waseca Minneapolis & St. Louis Depot Society was formed in order to restore the building, using an innovative mix of public and private funding and over 150 hours of volunteer sweat equity. Society members gutted the interior alterations and un-blocked the bricked up windows, with funding from the City of Waseca, the Minnesota Historical Society, and private institutions. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad; M&ST.L; M & St. L; M & St. L; M & St L; transportation, railroad, engines, locomotives, train tracks, engineer, trainmen, steam engine, railroad station, train station, Depot.