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residential districts, where the shady houses merge gradually into the sporadic development on the fringe of the city. The view obtained of the mountains is indescribably beautiful, especially looking east, beyond the university, and turning round from this view the three lonely looking extinct volcanoes beyond the Rio Grande meet the eye with exceptional distinctness.
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to design the building, with Henry C. Trost as the lead architect. The bank's president John M. Raynolds wrote in a letter that Trost "seemed to catch our ideas of what kind of a building we wanted and what kind of a banking room we wanted, and put them on paper immediately. ...We are especially
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and is distinguished by a row of 22-foot (6.7 m) high arched windows extending all the way around the building, even into the alley. It is further ornamented with scrolls, rosettes, medallions, and moldings. The ninth floor is set off with a
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developer with the intent to convert it into a luxury hotel. Plans later changed, and the building was instead remodeled into a high-end condominium project called The Banque Lofts, which opened in 2006.
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pleased with the design Mr. Trost made of the exterior of the building and believe that it requires an artist like Mr. Trost to give a building distinction and individuality."
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