WINONA, Minn. – A driver collided with another vehicle and ran up a sidewalk on Fifth Street and into the handicapped ramp at the historic and elegant Laird Norton building. The building itself was not damaged. The Winona State University art, design and sculpture classes, which use the first floor, were not affected. Since 2014 the building has been on the National Register of Historic Places. In the accident the errant car was heavily damaged, but no one was injured. The ramp too was damaged heavily too. The other car also was damaged. Cited for failure to yield was Johanna Isabela Ortega Sorto, 25, of Winona. The accident was about 3:15 p.m.
Laird Norton. At 125 West Fifth Street. Built in 1920 as national headquarters the immensely successful Laird Norton lumber company. The company itself dated to the 1850s.