Editing Blue Earth, Minnesota (section)

==Architecture==
Blue Earth is home to many examples of Midwestern architecture, including:

[[File:FaribaultCountyCourthouse.jpg|thumb|right|[[Faribault County Courthouse]]]]
'''Faribault County Courthouse''' – completed in December 1892 at a cost of over $70,000.  The architect for the courthouse was C.A. Dunham of Burlington, Iowa and the contractor was S.J. Hoban from St. Paul.  The style of the courthouse is [[Richardsonian Romanesque]]. Stone used in the construction of the courthouse was transported from [[Kasota, Minnesota]] to Blue Earth by horse and wagon and rail.  Most of the sand used in the mortar was from the Blue Earth river bottom and thoroughly washed.  The pillars on the front of the building are of polished granite.  There are ledges on all four sides of the tower that are of solid stone of unknown weights of several ton each.<ref name="Courthouse">[http://www.co.faribault.mn.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=13 Faribault County Courthouse History],</ref>

'''Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd''' – 1872

'''First Presbyterian Church''' — constructed in 1897 at a cost of $12,622.75.  Designed by Kinney and Orth, architects from Austin, Minnesota. The architecture is [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] in the arched windows, [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] in the steeples and gables, and medieval in the towers.<ref name="Church">[http://www.blueearthpres.com/ Presbyterian Church] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708073554/http://www.blueearthpres.com/ |date=July 8, 2011 }},</ref>

'''Salem Evangelical Church''' – This English country Gothic structure was completed in 1942.  Designed by Bard & Vanderbilt of [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]].