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REGIONS BANK (AMSOUTH BANK)

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c. 1970, Clopton Associates. 406 22nd Ave.

This three-story building is wrapped on two sides by a full-height portico carried on flared, attenuated, stucco-covered steel columns that mimic Gothic stone-vaulted construction. Behind and between the columns, walls are either gray-veined marble or full-height aluminum-framed windows. The New Formalist design was modeled on Minoru Yamasaki’s Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company building (1965) in Minneapolis but perhaps has more resonance here in a locale where white-columned porticos have long been an architectural staple.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "REGIONS BANK (AMSOUTH BANK)", [Meridian, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-EM8.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 214-214.

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