Here is how the Land Trust Company building (later the Commercial National Bank) looked in 1905:
And here is how it looks today:
Much better, isn’t it?
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This facade brings to mind a few bank buildings Louis Sullivan designed in the Midwest. Google his creations in the Iowa towns of Algona and Grinnell and the Minnesota town of Owatonna.