Leo W. Schaefer is responsible for the creation of several of our historic buildings.
Derick Segerstrom is the Manager of the Visual Arts Department at the Paramount Center for the Arts. He says Schaefer designed the then-called Sherman Theatre that opened in 1921, as well as several other buildings downtown.
Schaefer was an associate architect for the Stearns County Courthouse which was built in 1919. Just across the street from the Paramount, the St. Mary s school which is now called the Mary Center was built in 1924. And then, down the street, Schaefer helped design the Nathaniel Hotel in 1925, which today part of it houses Cream City Tattoo.