Blame them or thank them, whichever: It was the people of 1969 who left us this.

Do you have a favorite occurrence of brown brick veneer?

 

How 'bout concrete pilasters: Do you have a favorite occurrence of those.

 

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In downtown Rome, Georgia, on January 1st, 2025, was First National Community Bank at 501 Broad St (built in 1969 according to Appendix A of this architectural survey; originally the National City Bank of Rome; later the First Union National Bank of Rome and the Heritage First Bank) at the northeast corner of Broad Street and West 5th Avenue.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Floyd (county) (2000348)

• Rome (2024102)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• banks (buildings) (300005214)

• banks (institutions) (300410327)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• brown (color) (300127490)

• concrete (300010737)

• masonry veneer (300444225)

• Modern Movement (300121793)

• oblique views (300015503)

• pilasters (300002737)

• shrubs (300132407)

• trees (300132410)

• winter (300133101)

 

Wikidata items:

• 1 January 2025 (Q69307402)

• 1960s in architecture (Q11185676)

• 1969 in architecture (Q2812513)

• 2024-25 North American winter (Q128384474)

• Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL Combined Statistical Area (Q131668260)

• January 1 (Q2150)

• January 2025 (Q61312884)

• New Formalism (Q18746504)

• New Year's Day (Q196627)

• Northwest Georgia (Q7060047)

• ornamental shrub (Q41705489)

• ornamental tree (Q33249028)

• streetcorner (Q17106091)

• Treaty of New Echota (Q1049395)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Buildings—Georgia (sh91006323)

• Trees in cities (sh85137261)

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