The San Angelo National Bank Building, at 201 S. Chadbourne St. in
San Angelo, Texas
San Angelo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas, United States. Its location is in the Concho Valley, a region of West Texas between the Permian Basin to the northwest, Chihuahuan Desert to the southwest, Osage Plai ...
, was built in 1927. It has also been known as the Trimble-Batier-Cobb Insurance building. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1982.
[
It was designed by architect Anton F. Korn and is ]Classical Revival
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in style.[
It was deemed significant as "one of the most substantial and least-altered buildings in Classical Revival style in West Texas. Over fifty years after its construction, this concrete and masonry structure of eight stories still figures prominently in the San Angelo skyline. The Classical Revival style can be seen on the exterior in the mixture of smooth stones and facing bricks, in the large paired windows spaced to suggest a series of pilasters, and in the cut-stone ]cornices
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and perimeter bands. The interior lobby is beautifully decorated with Corinthian Corinthian or Corinthians may refer to:
*Several Pauline epistles, books of the New Testament of the Bible:
**First Epistle to the Corinthians
**Second Epistle to the Corinthians
**Third Epistle to the Corinthians (Orthodox)
*A demonym relating to ...
columns and Classical Revival detailing."[ Includes 11 photos from 1981-82. (Also available, with additional related correspondence, a]
National Archives
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External links
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Neoclassical architecture in Texas
National Register of Historic Places in Tom Green County, Texas
Buildings and structures completed in 1927
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