Lost Hutchinson: McLeod County Fair Administration Building

John Korngiebel is the boy in this 1940 photo. His father Walter and crew painted the art moderne or deco style building upon its completion.

Constructed: May 3 to Sept. 13, 1940

Location: At the north entrance of the old fairgrounds near 3M

Architecture: Art moderne or deco style described in a Leader article as “... of the modernistic type and pleasing to the eye.”

Torn down: Still standing

The fair moved from its old location next to 3M to its present location in 1993. The administration building was sold to 3M, and is still standing and visible from a cul-de-sac at the south end of Huron Street S.E.

The McLeod County Fair Administration Building above is part of a 20-week series of Lost Hutchinson buildings. Watch the Tuesday print edition for more information about the McLeod County Fair Administration Building. If any readers have other photos, renderings or information about this building, please post them here or send them to: Hutchinson Leader, 36 Washington Ave. W., Hutchinson, MN 55350.

A collection of information published in the Lost Hutchinson series as well as reader submitted photos and remembrances will be published in a magazine later this year.

If you missed the Lost Hutchinson series last week, click on the link below.