Bank of Warren
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First Citizens Bank (Bank of Warren)
1914, John P. Sloan. 307 E. Main St.
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(Photograph by Mark Mones) -
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(Photograph by Mark Mones)
This Classical Revival building displays a high level of architectural sophistication. Designed by a New York City architect, the temple-form stone building features a pedimented gable, engaged fluted Corinthian columns, a frieze festooned with garlands, and a clerestory faced with a lattice-patterned grille. The pedimented central entrance is topped by a frieze with carved laurel leaf swags and two sculptured nude male figures reclining in a Michelangeloesque manner on each slope of the pediment. Between the statues is a cartouche inscribed with the letter W (Bank of Warren). For a conservative community like Front Royal, the statues must have raised a few eyebrows when they were first unveiled. The interior is spectacular. The lobby, filling the full two-story volume of space, has walls divided by tall fluted Corinthian pilasters, a cornice with dentils that surrounds the room, and cartouches that perch on Ionic capitals.
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Location: Front Royal, VirginiaRegional Overviews:Architect:Types:Materials:
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Anne Carter Lee, "First Citizens Bank (Bank of Warren)", [Front Royal, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-WR5.
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Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 63-63.
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