The second floor facade might look a little cramped, but at night it would glow, and I’m sure the ventilation was fantastic.
Odd first floor; hope the owner got permission to paint on the neighbor.
Someone really, really hated that grand entrance, and wanted to humiliate it.
I’m also guessing they added a story at a later date. The fourth floor just looks so confidently done, like the last chord in the last movement of a symphony.
This one’s only 3 stories, but it looks bigger. It’s so strong.
JONES! I’m sure he’d be happy to see it standing, and in such good shape, in the second decade of the 21st century.
Dull building for a bank with the dullest name possible
It’s like one of those cliched meek-and-timid men from 40s movies, balding and squeaky-voiced, never doing anything out of the ordinary.
Safe to say the 70s swept in and had its way with a few of the locals.
Wow. That’s a lot of rustication.
I think the building on the left is an IOOF. The one on the right is more sober, and I’m sure it’s older. Well, mostly sure. The style would get more baroque, resulting in the IOOF extravagances, but then it would disappear before it had a chance to refine itself again.
HOLY JEEZUM CROW
That’s John Hancock, gesturing down to Law, Justice, and Mercy.
They offer a “virtual tour,” which turns out to be a YouTube video.
It’s not a great building but it’s an interesting building. The three pediments, for example. A bit odd. Pediments under the cornice. Wrong. But it makes it unusual.
Next door, more rustication, complete with that big knob they loved so much.
And then there’s this.
Nice little town. A round of applause for a place that did it well. But there's more! That's next week.
Four brothers, one of whom studied in Europe and became a nihilist.
Say, what’s on the name block on the corner structure?
Settles that, I guess
It’s as if they scalped it and left it alive as a warning to others
I can only assume the cornice was falling off, and maybe beaned someone.
My GOD it never ends. One fine commercial block after the other, with actual windows. Actual working windows instead of brick.
Not perfect, but at least they’re still used for the proper purpose.
The downtown theater.
LET MUSIC ART AND ORATORY ABOUT WITHIN
One hundred years of making that face. Our mothers were right; it did stay like that.
That concludes our two-week visit, and I’m sure I missed some things. Reading some message boards suggests the locals, or at least men under 40, or at least single men under 40 who can’t muster up the energy to leave, find it a dull place. Well, that’s on them.
