Pixelated F-Stops: Platte Bank

So during our great camping excursion on Labor Day, we had the opportunity to go into Platte. (Meaning that we could no longer stand the cool weather at our campsites and HAD to go into town to get a few provisions.) While there we took the chance to look around the vastness of Platte's main street where I saw this old bank building. I just had to take a few pictures since I adore turn of the century architecture for it attention to detail and use of building materials. I mean really who uses granite pillars and marble fascias these days...let alone quartz/limestone blocks? No one and it's just kind of sad (yet understandable). Anyway I busted out my camera on downtown Platte to take a few pictures of this old gal.

These ionic capitals on granite pilasters are gorgeous. Really they are, they are covered in acanthus leaf and "egg and dart" carvings. After 90+ years the granite still has it's high luster gleam that reflects the sun light.

The details of the block is amazing. Instead of the standard rough faced block the builders gave the building a little extra flare by utilizing a clean carved edge around a rough face...you literally can't get that type of detail anymore. I'm serious, the number of masonry and stone companies that offer that kind of edging can be counted on three fingers.

The keystone over the main entry (which has BEAUTIFUL doors) is carved in this beautiful morning glory pattern, giving the exterior a brush of the Art Nouveau style that was so popular in the early 1900's.