c. 1920. Southwest corner of Washington and Stevens streets
A thin slice of a building, this bank is able to assert its presence by the boldness of its Beaux-Arts Classical design and by its wealth of ornamentation. The narrow front (less than 25 feet wide) is conceived of as a temple, dominated by a pair of fluted Corinthian columns in antis. For the side elevation the architect grouped the upper and lower windows into five panels that rest on a limestone base. Brick pilasters between these window panels rise to a false cornice; above this, the solid brick parapet has been interrupted by bands of Roman balustrades. The bank has expanded to the right into a glass-and-metal anticontextual box.