Winona Savings Bank | Commissioned 1913; constructed 1914 – 1916 | 204 Main St, Winona, MN 55987

Designed by prominent architect George Maher of Chicago, who also designed the Watkins building in Winona. Is a favorite of visitors to Winona.

CONDITION: VG. Antique Used. UnMailed. 

SIZE: aprox 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Web info by Alan Sonneman:

The Winona Savings Bank Building, now the Winona National Bank, is an Egyptian Revival bank building in Winona, Minnesota. The building completed in 1916, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the largest and best preserved of Minnesota’s few early-20th-century Egyptian Revival buildings.

 

Located at 204 Main Street in Downtown Winona, with its Egyptian Revival architectural style and Prairie School influences, the building features monumental columns in the front entrance, Italian marble interior surfaces, Tiffany stained glass windows, unique Art Deco fixtures also made by Tiffany and on the third floor a gun collection and African safari trophies of the Watkins family who were the owners of the bank.

Interesting Facts:

Columns:

• Height: 37 feet
• Diameter: 4 feet, 8 1⁄2 inches
• Weight: 32 tons
• Each column is a single granite piece.
• Each pillar rests on a 5-ton granite base.
• The granite was quarried in North Carolina and polished in Vermont.
• At the time the columns were erected in 1916, they were among the largest gray granite columns in the United States. 

Marble:

• Tinos Green marble because it was quarried from the Isle of Tinos, a Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea 
• The white marble is called English Vein Italian white marble and was imported from the Carrara District of Italy. 

Tiffany Windows:

• Largest Tiffany Windows in America
• 12 windows total

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