Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Merchants' National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa

This is my discovery for the week. I had never been to Grinnell, Iowa. It seemed a large brick building until you turned the corner and this fantastic terra cotta window and entry treated my eyes.
A little research when I got home told me about the wonder of this Jewel Box Bank and its architect, Louis Sullivan, of Adler and Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright's teacher creator of the Schlesinger & Mayer department store, now the Carsen Pirie Scott building in Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade room.
This is an excellent place to start to learn about this building.



The detail in the building is extraordinary and I am very happy with the reach of the lens.


These pictures are taken with my new Kodak Z712IS and I am very satisfied with the reach of the zoom. My faithful old camera, the Kodak DX7440, veteran of 30,000 pictures, probably would have done just as well. More about the cameras another day.

Go out and take some pictures,
Kim

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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