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BBVA Compass Bank Building (Del Rio National Bank)

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1928, George Willis and E. T. Jackson; later addition. 525 S. Main St.

Designed by architects based in San Antonio, the concrete-framed, L-shaped, six-story building is faced with limestone, pale to mark the banking hall on the first two floors and darker above for the office tower. The original first story on the E. Loyosa Street side has a polished base of gray granite, and a bullnose belt course divides the banking hall from the upper office floors, which finish with Art Deco ornamentation. Along S. Main the arcade of a two-story New Formalist addition continues onto the 1928 building, creating a rather awkward visual connection.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "BBVA Compass Bank Building (Del Rio National Bank)", [Del Rio, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EL14.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 427-427.

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