Heins Block

Heins Block
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	102-104 N. 9th St., Olivia, Minnesota
Coordinates	44°46′36″N 94°59′23″W / 44.77667°N 94.98972°WCoordinates: 44°46′36″N 94°59′23″W / 44.77667°N 94.98972°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1896
Architect	Hedlund, A.J.
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP Reference #	01000842[1]
Added to NRHP	August 8, 2001

The Heins Block is the most prominent commercial building in the city of Olivia, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1896 to house a bank and a hardware store owned by P.W. Heins.^[2] P.W. Heins opened up his first mercantile store soon after the village of Olivia was surveyed by the Hastings and Dakota Railway. Heins established the Peoples Bank in 1889.^{[3]:894–895}

The architect, A.J. Hedlund, designed a Queen Anne-styled house for Heins. After the house was designed, Heins commissioned Hedlund to design a building for the Peoples Bank. The building was completed in 1896 and housed the bank and the Heins and Byers Hardware Store on the first level, with offices and apartments on the second and third levels. It has Romanesque details such as arched window openings, as well as a recessed Roman arched entrance resting above two short columns.^[4]

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Mary Ann Nord (2003). National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota: A Guide. Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 199. ISBN 0873514483.
3. Franklin Curtiss-Wedge (1916). History of Renville County. H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Company.
4. Denis P. Gardner (September 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Banks of Minnesota, 1853-1960 (Draft)" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-11-26.