What is it about this "corn cob?" We are so enamored with it, but why do we care? What is it about this tall, cartoonish water tower that grips our collective conscious? Or unconscious?

Admit it: One of the first sites you take visiting friends and relatives to see in Rochester is the distinctive ear of corn water tower. Not quite as ubiquitous as the geese on local logos and ...

The water tower at the Seneca Foods plant in Rochester is painted as a corn cob. The quirky local landmark's fate is uncertain as the plant prepares to shut down in December 2018. If you really ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota — Rochester’s iconic ear-of-corn water tower was celebrated on Sept. 25 after it was recently restored to look new again. “For many of us in Olmsted County, when we see ...