Seville House/C.C. Menes

The Seville House was built in 1897 by Lodi’s master builder, C.C. Menes, who designed and/or built over 20 houses in Lodi. Carl Christopher Menes was born in Norway in 1870 and immigrated to Wisconsin in 1886. A self-taught architect and carpenter, Menes first built a home in Lodi in 1894, and moved to the city four years later. For the next thirty years, Menes worked designing and building homes and commercial structures in and around Lodi. The homes Menes designed and built generally had foundations of stone harvested at a local quarry, palladian attic windows, and verandas with doubled columns. Many consider the Seville House to be his masterpiece.