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continued their negotiations with him and an agreement was reached. Sullivan began this study of the bank and its functions beginning with the large banking room and working out from there while reducing the cost of the structure by cutting back on the terra cotta ornamentation. The building was finished in 1912.
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Sullivan's initial design was completed in the summer of 1909 but was rejected by the bank as being too expensive. The following year his Cedar Rapids clients, spearheaded by the bank Vice-President Fred Shaver (whom local Cedar Rapids tradition has Sullivan designing a remodeling of his residence),
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The bricks for the exterior of the building were produced in 15 different shades, producing, as Sullivan remarked, "the effect of an antique Oriental rug." The interior of the building includes clerestory walls of glass with murals by
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said of it at the time that, "The building is thus clearly designed from within outward. The exterior is the envelope of the interior reduced to its very simplest expression." (Wilson and Robinson)
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and took on its name. The Third Avenue building continued to serve as the Cedar Rapids/Marion area's main Wells Fargo branch, but because of its proximity to the
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Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Iowa
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assisted Sullivan on. Shortly after its completion Elmslie joined the Minnesota partnership of
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Cedar Rapids Central Business District Commercial Historic District
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Linn County, Iowa
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Cedar Rapids 2nd Avenue SE. Automobile Row Historic District
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Peoples Bank was purchased around 1989 by Minneapolis-based
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National Register of Historic Places in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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West Side Third Avenue SW Commercial Historic District
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West Side Third Avenue SW Commercial Historic District
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Iowa Wind Mill and Pump Company Office and Warehouse
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Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property

Peoples Savings Bank is located in Iowa
Peoples Savings Bank is located in the United States
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
41°58′27.78″N 91°40′18.95″W / 41.9743833°N 91.6719306°W / 41.9743833; -91.6719306
Louis Sullivan
West Side Third Avenue SW Commercial Historic District
ID14000323
78001241
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Louis Sullivan
National Register of Historic Places
contributing property
West Side Third Avenue SW Commercial Historic District
Montgomery Schuyler
Allen Philbrick
George Elmslie
Purcell & Feick
Norwest Corporation
Wells Fargo
Cedar River
Great Iowa Flood of 2008
Terra cotta detail
Terra cotta detail
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Columbus
Wisconsin

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