The oldest commercial bank in the state is the grandest of the so-called downtown banking temples, boasting an imposing hall. Outside, a giant-order Corinthian colonnade supports a classical entablature. The pediment, however is displaced from its customary place atop the temple, and shrunken to serve as the main entrance, an accidental synecdoche for the small banking temple's current subservience to an addition (1967, Anshen & Alley). For the modernist tower, cast-concrete panels with decorative batten strips project between the dark horizontal window rows
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