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Westcliffe State Bank Building

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c. 1900. 201 Main St.

Exemplifying Gilded Age facadism, this one-story, gracefully aged building has a smooth-faced brick front and cheaper brick side walls. An elaborate cast iron cornice with dentils and modillions ornaments the facade, as does a secondary cornice with inset brick panels. The iron shopfront has fluted pilasters supporting a narrow cast iron band of floral emblems and a metal doorsill stamped “Colorado Iron Works, Denver.”

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Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Westcliffe State Bank Building", [Westcliffe, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-CR02.

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