firm active: 1907-1921 minneapolis, minnesota :: chicago, illinois philadelphia, pennsylvania :: portland, oregon

---

Navigation :: Home :: Selected Works :: Commercial :: Commission List

---

Merchants National Bank
Purcell, Feick and Elmslie
Winona, Minnesota   1912

• Lamp posts (1913)
• Alterations (1919)

This building is on the National Register of Historic Places (Minnesota--Winona County; added November 16, 1974).

Images

Front elevation, circa 1950s	Banking room, circa 1914	Original skylight, 1914
Terracotta diagram	Vault mosaic diagram	P&E advertising brochure
Panel from The Western Architect	Panel from The Western Architect

Additional images for this commission are broken down into categories:

• Archival b&w images, circa 1912-1918
   
•   Decorative detail: terracotta, leaded glass, mosaic
   
• Later exterior and interior views, circa 1950s-1990s
   
• Recent (2006) high resolution images of decorative elements contributed by Tom Shearer

Illustrations of this building appear on page 582 of "George Grant Elmslie and the Chicago Scene," by Talbot Hamlin in Pencil Points (September, 1941)

Illustrations of this building appear in the catalog for the "Purcell & Elmslie, Architects" exhibition at the Walker Art Center in 1953

Texts

• Parabiographies entry, by William Gray Purcell

Correspondence

 Letter from George Grant Elmslie to Frank Lloyd Wright, June 12, 1936

GGE recollects that Carl K. Bennett liked this bank better than his own in Owatonna.

Other Resources

(launches new browser window)

• 
  Chair from the board room, now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
  (click on the link and search on "Elmslie")
• The Prairie School Traveler page with location