Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1917 — BANK BUILDING BEING RAZED [ARTICLE]

BANK BUILDING BEING RAZED

The work of razing the old First National bank building is now in progress, to make way for the bank’s handsome new building on the site thereof. While it is not generally known, this bank practically bargained for the purchase of the west annex to the I. O. O. F. building about a year ago, at $21,000, but one of the heaviest stockholders objected to the purchase and the purchase was not consumated. Had this deal gone through the bank would have had a frontage of 28% feet, instead of wenty feet, a building three stories in height with two floors for rental* purposes, a steam heated building and the heating plant, -but would have had no basement.