This image shows the Owatonna Bank's electroliers-the four massive light fixtures that hang from the ceiling of the central banking room. Each weighed over a ton. They were hung from two four-foot-deep roof girders. The roof framing specified these oversized girders to accommodate the weight of the electroliers, and the rest of the roof framing evolved from that initial decision. Designed in Elmslie's most lavish style, the electrolier drop down into the lobby like huge plants ready at any moment to entangle the banker's room in their exuberant growth. Each electrolier is linked to a corner of the lobby skylight by a narrow rootlike strip of ornament. This strip, which gives the illusion that the electrolier is growing out of the skylight, swells into an ornamental base attached to the ceiling.

The National Farmers' Bank electroliers are perhaps the most intricate metal-casting ever made by Winslow Brothers Ornamental Iron of Chicago.

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