06/04/2026
A Bank Facade, Designed Like Jewelry.
Completed in 1914, Louis Sullivan’s Merchants’ National Bank in Grinnell, Iowa, is one of his famous “jewel-box” banks—small in scale, but lavish in detail. The circular stained-glass opening and richly layered ornament turn an ordinary street corner into one of the most distinctive bank fronts in American architecture.
Photographer: Smallbones [Wikimedia]
