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Local Customs: Going the Extra Expense
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When frontier town planners built their main thoroughfares, the more prominent buildings used towers, fancy entablatures and probably oriel or bay windows in their architecture. Some of the original bay windows from Norman's historical district still remain on their facades. An additional expense to the proprietor, such windows were created to allow more light to shine into the parlors (except perhaps in this instance, now that the building has been taken over by a modern law firm). Like many of the other older buildings, the original owner (here, Alden) retains his name in the entablature.
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Local Customs: It's a Bank - So What's to Tell?
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There are at least two original buildings along the historical drag on Main Street that retain their original purpose (albeit under new owners). The first of these (in the historical district but quite unlike the other facades) is the imposing graystone Renaissance structure on the northwest corner of Peters and Main. Now the First Fidelity Bank, its entablature reads either CNB or GNB, of which the last two characters mean "national bank."
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Local Customs: A Bank is a Bank is a Bank
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The second of the ongoing financing concerns in Norman sits on the southeast corner of Peters and Main. Now Arvest National Bank, the entablature reads "Security National Bank," and dates in the doorway read both 1914 and 1924. This is either a latecomer to the historical district, or a replacement for a former building, but a fitting complement to the Renaissance banking house opposite the intersection.
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Rich62 Sat Mar 4, 2006 16:21 UTC
Absolutely outstanding photos and descriptions of Norman. On our next visit we will be looking for those red phone booths! Good job. | boomer54 Thu Feb 23, 2006 09:45 UTC
mrclay, did you attend The University of Oklahoma ? | thecatsmeow Sun Sep 5, 2004 03:50 UTC
Nice job on the tour of buildings. I have family in Norman and have strolled about the campus in Norman. Actually I have family everywhere in Oklahoma. I am one of the only ones who is not there. =^oo^= | acemj Sun Sep 21, 2003 22:01 UTC
I thought I liked architecture. Great stuff about historical influences . . . I was here in '93 and spent most of my time on the OU campus. Too bad it wasn't football season. |
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