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Coming soon – information from the Evansville Historic Preservation Committee.

Wisconsin Landmarks Newsletter, October 2007

Architecture: Finding John Steinmann

John Steinmann (1914-87) will be part of our Evansville program October 20. We’ll meet in his late 1950s St. John’s Lutheran church. Son of an architect and father of one, too, John Steinmann was born in Monticello and died in Madison. An architecture graduate of the University of Illionois, Champaign-Urbana, Steinmann designed the Karakahl inn in Mount Horeb, the Wisconsin pavilion for the New York world’s fair in the early 1960s–pavilion now rebuilt at the edge of Neillsville, high schools, other institutional buildings and houses, one of these being the Prudhon House (1967) at 245 Clifton Street in Evansville. As is true for other mid-century modernists, some of his work is being remodeled–a bank in Stoughton, and some is being demolished, his Timbers restaurant in Platteville. More at Evansville… Thanks to researcher Jamie Rowe, Poynette; WHS’s AHI.

Photo caption:

Continuing to show modernism. Our Saturday meeting place in Evansville. Monticello architect John W. Steinmann’s St. John’s Lutheran Church (1957-58). An institutional interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright mixed with mid-century modern style. Horizontal lines, clerestory windows, minimal obvious decoration. Note the small centrally positioned cross.