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Claude and Starck of Madison created this ornate Romanesque Revival design for the Jefferson County Bank around 1900. The one-story stone facade is narrow and delicately proportioned, but it teems with tiny details. Byzantine capitals, classical acanthus leaves, and grotesques of human heads crown a pair of slender engaged columns whose smooth shafts rise from blocky pedestals. Reptilian creatures, carved in stone blocks, peer out from beneath a low-pitched gabled parapet, embellished by bead molding. Defining the storefront, paired arches, lined with profuse moldings, spring from slender columns that are grouped in singles, pairs, and triplets. Surmounting the capitals, carved lions seem poised as if ready to pounce.
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