The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-05-10
NEW SECOND NATIONAL BANK BUILDING.

NEW SECOND NATIONAL BANK BUILDING.
The new building of he Second National
Bank, on Office street, Bel Air, is about
completed and ready for occupancy. 1t
has frontage of thirty-fve feet, six
inches, on Office street, and a depth of
sixty-seven feet. The height is thirty-two
feet, its style of architecture being heavy
Greek, and the material in front being
Indiana lime stone, with granite base,
the front being supported by four heavy
columns. The handsome main door has
a large circular transom, and the door
transom and windows are filled with
plate, glass. Underneath the entire build
ing, is a roomy cellar. The whole build
ing is stone, and is as near fire-proof as
it is possible to make one. The entire
floor being absolutely so. The interior
is finished in keeping with the front, the
ceiling being beautifully designed and laid
off in twelve large panels, richly frescoed.
The wainscoting all around, including the
counters, is of a beautiful shade
Tennessee marble, the vestibule being
wainscoted with Italian marble. The
walls have ahigh-colored sand finish, and
the floors of the vestibule and lobby are
laid with encaustic tiles, with Doric
fret border. This design is carried out
through the whole interior. The other
floors are of hard wood and polished.
The entire wood work of the interior is
quartered oak, brought up to high
finish. This buildingis divided off into
large lobby, with horseshoe counter,
giving access on three sides to the public,
with ample room on the inside for the
clerical force. Above the marble wains-
coting are the hard wood counters, and
above the counters and extending clear
around, is the handsome wrought-iron
grill of Greek design, in keeping with the
rest of the bank, the teller's cage being
enclosed with an iron grill. Back |
of this is the cashiers room, and in the |
rear is the directors room, which is
fourteen by twenty. 1t is we'll lighted, |
with an open fireplace and oak mantel,
and has all the requirements of private |
board room, being entirely cut off from
the main building when the dooris closed. |
On the right of this room is a fre-proof
book vault, five by thirteen, ten feet high. |
On the left is hall connecting with all |
parts of the bank, including lavatory,
and a handsome stairway, |
which leads to large storage room over
the entire rear of the bank; and the main
banking room, in addition to the front
is lighted from a skylight in
the roof
The vault work in the building was
done by the York Safe and Lock Com
pany, of York, Pennsylvania, and is of
the finest finish and ofthe latest improve
ment in every particular. The main vault
opens directly into the rear of the count
ing room. This vault is placed on a
heavy concrete masonry, extending
twelve feet below the floor and encased |
in seventeen inches of hard brick wall, |
laid in cement. The inside dimensions of
the vault are eight by eight, seven feet,
six inches high in the clear and construct
ed of double interlocking steel rails, with |
Bessemer steel lining. All interstices are |
filled with grouting of cement, steel fill
ings and emery, making a solid steel
lining six inches thick. Agrill divides the
vault into two departments. In front |
of the grill, to the right, is a nest of fifty
one safe deposit boxes, twenty -four inches
deep, of different sizes, which will be
rented to any one desiring safe-deposit |
boxes for their securities. Access to the
boxes is to be had through
the day gate from the front of the vault,
and is kept entirely separate from the
rear of the vault by the grill partitions.
This is regarded as very important and
desirable feature. There is a handsome
day gate at the front of the vault, which
is fastened when the main doors are
open. The inside doors which are folding,
are of solid steel, and three and a half
inches thick, and have sixteen bolts,
checked by two Yale and Towne combi-
nation bank locks. The outside door is
a beautiful piece of steel work, four inches
thick of welded Bessemer and chrome
steel, swinging easily on a compound
hinge with ball bearings. This door has
a heavily proportional double CAM
eccentric or pressure bar operated by
gearing, with hand wheel to force the
back and front of the door out of and
into lamb in one motion. 1t has a con-
tinuous bolt frame all around the inner
edges, holding twenty special steel throw
bolts, each ~ inches in diameter. The
bolts are entirely automatic in their &C
ton, and are governed by the latest i'm
proved large size double Yale automatic
bolt throwing devise, which is checked by
a Yale threc-movement seventy-two-hour
time lock, and the entire bolt work is
covered by plate glass door set in pol
ished, etched metal frame, hinged and
locked. ms perfect piece OF vault work
gives the same security as can be found
in the largest banking or trust company
building in the city. The building is fitted
with fixtures for both gasland.electricity,
and as completed is one of the most con-
veniently arranged banking houses in the
State, and is an ornament to the town
and credit to the institution
The architect of this building was Mr..
George Archer, of Baltimore city, and the
entire work was under the supervision of
Mr.. Dennis J. Shanahan. contractor, of
Fallston.
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