First National Bank Building

This bank building appears in the full guise of a Greek Doric temple, at least on two of its sides. The general tendency of Beaux-Arts classicism was to look to Rome or Renaissance Italy; here we encounter a well-done version of a Greek temple with columns in antis, its only omission being a stylobate base. The upper portions of the temple design are larger and more boldly articulated than the walls and columns below. The entablature with its tri-glyphs and the pediment with its elaborately sculpted tympanum are of grand scale and seem (in a charming fashion) to push the lower part of the temple into the ground.