Mankato Commercial College

Mankato - The Metropolis of Southern Minnesota

Excerpts taken from the Mankato Commercial College Catalogue, originally issued in the early 1900s. Courtesy of Jo Cattrysse.

Mankato, The County Seat of the Blue Earth County and the home of the Mankato Commercial College, is beautifully situated on the Minnesota river, eighty-six miles southwest of St. Paul. It is the center of the richest farming and stock raising sections in the Northwest. It is also noted for its extensive Stone Quarries, Cement Works, Lime Industry, Brick Manufacture, Large Flour Mill, Knitting Mill, Packing House, Candy Factories, Machine Shops, Incubator Factory, Automobile Factory, Foundries, Overall and Shirt Factory, Wholesale Grocery and Saddlery Houses, Banks having deposits up into the millions, two very fine Hospitals, etc.

The advantages Mankato offers to the student are almost innumerable. No city in the state is better provided with churches and schools. Mankato has sixteen church edifices of different denominations, Young Men's Christian Association, a State Normal School, a Catholic College, a Central High School and a Business College of high grade. The German Lutherans have just completed a Ladies' Seminary, costing $200,000 and the Catholics a Mother House and Ladies' Seminary, costing $300,000. All the prominent societies are represented, from the Knights Templar to the Women's Relief Corps. The citizens are ever ready to extend the hand of fellowship to strangers.

The public buildings located in Mankato are ornaments, and the citizens may well be proud of them. The Court House, costing $200,000, built of Mankato Stone, stands on an eminence commanding a fine view of the city and surrounding country. Its prominence and architectural beauty constantly attracts the eye of the stranger passing through city. The new government Post Office, erected at an expense of over $100,000, is one of the finest structures of its kind in the state. The new public Library is one of the handsomest buildings in the state. The Mankato Commercial College ranks with finest in United States. It was erected at an expense of $75,000. The churches are well built structures, mostly of brick, some of which are elaborately trimmed with stone.

Mankato is lighted with a system of electric lights, and no city can boast of better lighted streets. It is a city of beautiful streets; paved with brick, asphalt, and creosote blocks. Its electric street car service is equal to any in the West.

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