The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-28
EARLY LANDMARK

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 With the passing of the old building on the corner of Avenue E and Nineteenth street, which has been torn down to give place to the new bank building, landmark of the early days of Ensley has gone.
 While only a period of 50 years has elapsed since the building was completed it had been the scene of many stirring incidents that have had vital effects on the growth and development of the dis trict and city, and as the Irishman said "Many's the tale that ovid buildin' could tell, if it had eyes to spake wid.'
 It was originally intended as the office of the Ensley Land company and was completed in the spring of 1887. With the passing of the land company into the courts 1t became for while the abiding place of rats and bats and owls and kin dred animals. Tt stood like a lonesome sentinel for many years, for there were few buildings in it's immediate vicinity It later became the office of the Ensley division of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company and when that com pany moved it's general office to Bir- mingham, it again became vacant.
 FIRST POSTOFFICE
 With the establishment of a postoffice in Ensley . part of the building was rented to Uncle Sam and the sister of Postmaster Sugg, Miss Pauline Sugg, was the postmistress. which is another ln- stance that holding office often runs III families.
 Some years later it became the "batch' of half a dozen or more young bloods of various rank and stations of life. Con sideration for the feeling of the one or two of the aforesaid young bloods who still remain with us impelS the writer to refrain from accounting the scenes Of f1ot enacted in the bllll0- ing at that period.
 The old building was put to various and sundry other uses until 1t became the headquarters of the Ensley company (Ramsay & Mccormack and in May lO, 1899, the Bank of Ensley was established within its walls. From the start the bank took deep root. and has since grown apace until the institution has become the pride of every Ensley citizen and the envy of the rest of the world.
 POLITICAL RENDEZVOUS
 Later the building became general real estate office or rather several of fees, and many of the important land deals of the district have been trans- acted in the old structure. And not few political plots have been matched under it's roof. for it became the rem dezvous of patriots. near politicians and politicians for revenue only. Campaigns were planned, Slateu ana puSteu' favorite sons cussed and dis cussed battles fought and lost and vic tories won by the patriots and poltic- ians aforesaid in and around the his- toric edifice. And within haliowed ground (soft pedaD lies buried the re- mains of the youthful city of Ensley, who was killed in the heyday of its strength and usefulness by the Conner legislature of 1909, when the busy, bus ting little municipality was taken in and became part of Greater Birming- ham.
 memories the edifice had served it's day, and was recently reduced to it's original clements. timbers and blanks, to make room for the modern bank structure. And. ineidentally. the man that directed the reducing was Hut Culpepper, who, % years before. had helped to build it.