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University Avenue Bank
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Night view of the University Avenue bank building, 905 University Avenue, designed in the Art Deco style by Weary and Alford of Chicago for the First Central Bank about 1928-1929. Rennebohm Drug Store #7 occupies the street level of the building. Notice that the streetcar tracks can be seen in the street intersection.
December 16, 1929
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Levitan Building
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