Dallas National Bank - Dallas, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 32° 46.846 W 096° 47.902
14S E 706195 N 3629129
The 1927 Dallas National Bank is a sixteen-story, three-bay wide, Gothic Revival building with a large vaulted central entry and a steep Gothic pitched parapet. The building extends from Main to Commerce with an entrance off both streets.
Waymark Code: WM114M8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/15/2019
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NRHP Nomination Form"The reinforced steel frame building is clad in limestone with Gothic Style terra cotta detailing on the upper floors and along the cornice and roofline. The three secondary facades are gray face brick trimmed with terracotta. The Dallas National Bank Building officially opened to the public on May 16, 1927.
The site of the Dallas National Bank is urban, with surrounding 1-to-2-story commercial buildings, and concrete sidewalks. The building is fifteen-stories with a small attic floor in the gabled parapet, for a total of sixteen floors. The building's structure is reinforced concrete, finished with limestone, buff brick and Gothic Revival detailing. The building is divided into three sections: the base that includes the ground floor and mezzanine, the shaft (floors three through fourteen) and the cornice (floors fifteen and sixteen). The bays are expressed in an A-B-A rhythm by the ground floor and mezzanine fenestration and by the window groupings above: two windows (A); four windows (B); and two windows (A). The decorative stone and terra cotta is typical of the Gothic style with flnials, blind ogee arches, trefoils, quatrefoils and engaged hanging corbels. Between the mezzanine and the third floor are a band of inset limestone panels with blind ogee arches. Above the stone panels the central window grouping at this level are four arched windows. This arched window detail is repeated on the fifteenth floor just below the parapet with all the windows in each bay arched. At the cornice level the vertical definition of the bays is more pronounced and the terracotta projects from the building plane. This detail is seen on the outer ends of the building and between the central bays. In both instances this vertical element rises above the surrounds mass and is capped with a cross-gabled finial. Between the arched windows on the fifteenth floor and the gothic-pitched parapet is a second decorative band of terracotta. The roof material is built-up type. There is a steel flagpole over the north-facing roof parapet."