Property Record
130 LODI ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | State Bank of Lodi |
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| Other Name: | Lodi Women's Club Public Library |
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| Reference Number: | 111272 |
| Location (Address): | 130 LODI ST |
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| County: | Columbia |
| City: | Lodi |
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| Year Built: | 1961 |
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| Survey Date: | 19992020 |
| Historic Use: | bank/financial institution |
| Architectural Style: | Contemporary |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | John W. Steinmann |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Built as the State Bank of Lodi in 1961 and occupied by them until 1989, when the Bank built a new building at 102 N. Main Street, whereupon this building became the new public library building. It is believed that this bank was designed by John W. Steinmann of Monticello, WI. An article in Monticello Past and Present states that Steinmann designed a bank in Lodi and this is the only candidate within that time frame. 2020: The State Bank of Lodi (currently the Lodi Woman’s Club Public Library) is a one-story, Contemporary style, 1961 bank building. It is clad in brick and features corbelled brick detailing along the exterior. The flat roof has a wide metal fascia with deep eave overhang and the original, fixed, grouped windows are set in wood frames with stone sills. The front (southeast) facade features a central glazed entrance flanked by fixed windows and two angled, projecting bays to the south and east that display integrated brick planters with stone coping. A section of infilled brick along the side (southwest) elevation suggests that portion of the building has been altered; likely a drive-up teller window. The State Bank of Lodi (known as the Bank of Lodi until 1897) was founded c.1885 and occupied several earlier downtown locations including 137-139 S. Main Street (AHI No. 3542, contributing resource in the National Register-listed Lodi Downtown Historic District) and 108 Lodi Street (likely AHI No. 242180, see below). This new bank building, completed in 1961, was designed by architect John W. Steinmann. Steinmann was a graduate of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and was a Wisconsin-based architect at the firm he shared with his brother, Howard Steinmann. He designed a variety of Modern buildings including schools, churches, and, perhaps most notably, the 1964 New York World’s Fair Wisconsin Pavilion (AHI No. 6275). The State Bank of Lodi occupied this location until 1988, when a new bank building was constructed at 102 N. Main Street. The building currently serves as the Lodi Woman’s Club Public Library. After early iterations of the library moved locations throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Lodi Woman’s Club secured library space in the 1914 City Hall at 113 S. Main Street (nonextant). The Lodi Common Council and library board bought and remodeled the former State Bank of Lodi building in 1988 and moved the library to this location in 1990. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Lodi Enterprise: 11/13/1997, p. 16 (historic photos). Monticello Historical Committee. Monticello Past and Present. Monticello: 1977, p. 57. Heggland, City of Lodi, Columbia County, Wisconsin - Intensive Survey Report, 17. Jason Tish, “Mid-Century Modern Open House - Nov. 20,” Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, November 10, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20140107013121/http://www.madisonpreservation.org/2011/11/mid-century-modern-open-house-nov-20/ Jamie Rowe, “Architecture: Finding John Steinmann,” Wisconsin Association of Historic Preservation Commissions: Wisc. Landmarks Newsletter, October 2007, 2. “Woman’s Club History,” Lodi Public Library, n.d., https://www.lodipubliclibrary.org/womans-club-history. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |