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Office Building (Bank of Commerce)

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1920, Charles L. Thompson. 200 N. Washington Ave.
  • (Photograph by Karen Kingsley)
  • (Photograph by Karen Kingsley)

With remarkable prescience, the bank directors commissioned this sophisticated classical design in 1920 when the institution only served a small timber and farming community. Following the oil boom, the bank was reorganized and received a federal charter. Despite its modest size, the two-story Flemish bond brick bank has an air of monumentality. The arched entrance is framed by paired Ionic pilasters that support a broken pediment. A wide entablature unifies the front and side elevations. The south-side elevation has single-story brick piers capped by cast-stone spheres marking the window bays. After the bank moved in 1973, the building was converted for office space; no original interior fittings remain.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors
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What's Nearby

First Financial Bank Building (Lion Oil Building, Exchange Bank)
Union County Courthouse
El Dorado Commercial District
Rialto Theater
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse

Citation

Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors, "Office Building (Bank of Commerce)", [El Dorado, Arkansas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AR-01-UN5.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Arkansas

Buildings of Arkansas, Cyrus A. Sutherland and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, 197-197.

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