The Ontario State Bank Block was a historic commercial building located at 300 South Euclid Avenue in
Ontario
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,
California
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. The building, completed in 1887, was composed of three sections, and had a design which incorporated elements of the
Eastlake and
Queen Anne styles. The design included a corner
turret
Turret may refer to:
* Turret (architecture), a small tower that projects above the wall of a building
* Gun turret, a mechanism of a projectile-firing weapon
* Objective turret, an indexable holder of multiple lenses in an optical microscope
* Mi ...
, several
gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...
s along the roof line, and a variety of different window styles; it originally had three prominent
oriel window
An oriel window is a form of bay window which protrudes from the main wall of a building but does not reach to the ground. Supported by corbels, bracket (architecture), brackets, or similar cantilevers, an oriel window is most commonly found pro ...
s in the gable peaks above the bank's original section, and also had a set in the second section of the block. Decorative features included
corbel
In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the s ...
led brickwork and carved wooden
pilaster
In classical architecture
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s and