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Just 7 Buildings in Downtown Sauk Rapids Are Over 100 Years Old Benton County Historical Society Executive Director Mary Ostby put together a list of those buildings and a brief history of each location. Old Sauk Rapids Herald building- 7 2 nd Ave So. -1912 Benton County Historical Society Gust Pilantz built the brick 2 story building in 1912 and used it for a furniture store. Over the years its other uses have been a bakery, Kurr theater, Lyric theater, a grocery, Cozy theater, Perry Auto Repair shop and in 1938 Lee Batcheler purchased the building and it was turned into the print shop for Sauk Rapids Sentinel, which then became the Sauk Rapids Herald newspaper building. ....