TEXARKANA NATIONAL BANK (#2)

This second showing intended as additional photographs for the showing here which is more of the full building...

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/298593-texarkana-national-bank-1?in=activity

Picture #1 here is the terra-cotta work and what's left of transoms on the short side of the bank building, adjacent (to the left) to the 'columned doorway' on the corner which I'm guessing was the original main bank lobby entrance -- and that this entrance was for more direct access to upper floors of the building. Note two things in particular...how the large steel angle beam (RH side of pic) was so very rudely introduced directly over (through) whatever was there before it without mercy -- also the small black marks on the terra-cotta archway (LH side) immediately in front of the cinderblocked opening. Those marks are *torch burns*...my whole mind shudders at the thought of what they might have cut out of there...

Pic 2 is the bottom of one of the now existing aluminum plate glass window frames that replaced whatever originals filled the openings in the walls. It would appear the newer frames were installed with at least their very bottoms at the original basic locations, because the small white portion of stone seen immediately below the brown extruded aluminum is the fractured remains of *grained white MARBLE*, presumably the first windowsill material, the rest of which obviously having been removed via large hammer.

Pic 3 is a surprise found while peering through glass doors at the RH end of the long side of the building -- what's left of an elevator lobby with absolutely wonderful stainless steel art-deco (-ish) elevator doors and hardware still intact amongst the remains and debris of the rest of the hopelessly 'remodeled' interior of the ground floor. Two pair of doors in this pic, there is at least one more pair to the RH side of these out of frame. (and out of my view to really see from outside) Not shown anywhere here is what can be (kind of) seen while peering into other ground floor windows from the sidewalk -- essentially appearing as though the *entire* rest of the interior of the original bank is now long gone to dropped ceilings, fluorescent light fixtures, airconditioning ductwork, and whatnot...likely pretty much permanently...

Pic 4 is essentially just a few "crumbs" I literally picked up from the sidewalk and brought home with me -- small fragments of once lovely things that must have survived all the former trauma to the building somewhere only to be dislodged and knocked to the ground along with whatever all the now removed "upgrades" were, then not completely cleaned up. The white fragments at the bottom are (were) parts of white windowsill marble, the speckled tan at top are glazed terra-cotta masonry that used to be part of door framing detail I think, the doorway fancywork seems to have been a slightly different color than that used for other such decoration on the building.