Talk:Home Building Association Bank

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While visiting the building in 1985 I discovered that the outside door leading to the upstairs was not locked, so I went in. I discovered a staircase that led to the second floor, which was being renovated. I included a not very interesting picture of the space in the gallery on the article page. However, more interesting, and, it turned out, disturbing, was a door that had been added halfway up the stairs. It too was unlocked, this was small town Ohio after all, and upon opening and entering through it I discovered myself on what was essentially a dropped ceiling, added when the building had been converted into an ice cream parlor some years previously. The space was being used for storage, but it also held all the refrigeration equipment that was needed downstairs. As I look around, mostly up, I discovered that I was surrounded by the most astounding designs that i had ever seem. They were what remained of the stenciled patterns that Sullivan had produced here. I was to discover that these, along with those in the Chicago Stock Exchange and the bank in Owatonna were considered his best. They consisted of something like 60 different patterns overlaid on each other. However, to my everlasting horror, the paintings that I had discovered were peeling off the walls. Literally. pieces a foot or two long were hanging off the walls and ceilings. I was tempted to just pull some off, but did not. Unfortunately the pictures that I took did not come out very well, but I have included them here anyway. Carptrash 17:52, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

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Is it just me

Or is this whole page pretty much unreadable since the box went in? Carptrash (talk) 14:32, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

It is part of an effort to unify all listings on the National Register of Historic Places. See United States National Register of Historic Places listings for state-by-state listings, which direct to county-wide listings.--Marcbela (talk) 15:02, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

And that is a good thibng. What is not so good (opinion) is that the map of Ohio covers half the info box and a chunk of the gallery. i hope that is not happening at all USNRoHP articles. I'm not that good at formatting text boxs but will leap in and slash and burn and/or smash and grab if someone else does not. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 23:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I moved the photo back to the gallery - is it better now? The other thing that may help, is if the article got a bit longer. That would push things down more.--Marcbela (talk) 00:08, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

This is much better, thanks. Life is good. Carptrash (talk) 19:29, 21 April 2009 (UTC)