First National Bank Building, Madison and Franklin Streets, Tampa, Florida, Detail of Top Floor and Cornice

Creator

Sape A. Zylstra

Files

Preview

Creation Date

January 1980

Time Period

circa 1980s-1990s

Abstract

Except for the Floridan Hotel, this building, from 1926, is the tallest of the 1920s structures still standing. It is in many respects like the Chicago School's skyscrapers of the 1880s and 90s in its straightforward base-shaft-capitol treatment of the facade, with ground floor mezzanine banking area and arched top windows, and with its brick and terra-cotta cladding of the steel frame. But the base especially is a concession to the Renaissance Revival style. The south and west sides are, alas, not as nice, but even the Chicago School's Louis Sullivan usually gave only two sides of a building his extensive detailing. This shows a detail of the top floor and cornice from the east view.

Keywords

Bank buildings, Chicago school of architecture (Movement), Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924), Renaissance revival (Architecture)

Extent

1 color slide

Geographic Location

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)

Physical Collection

Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Architectural Slides

Box

1

Media Type

Color slides

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Description supplied by Sape A. Zylstra.

Identifier

Z03-A065

Recommended Citation

Zylstra, Sape A., "First National Bank Building, Madison and Franklin Streets, Tampa, Florida, Detail of Top Floor and Cornice" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 65.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/65