The Watkins Community Museum of History
 Douglas County Historical Society • Lawrence, Kansas

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We are now entering the second floor where the bank was. And again we see find marble inlaid floors and on the doors we find detailed brass dressing plates and keyholes with keyhole covers with ornamental hinges. We find wainscoting on the door and window framing in quarter sawed white oak with intricate carving and finishing of woodwork. In the center of the room we find two cylindrical cast iron columns with floral design decorated capitals. The bank counter is not original. Mr. Andrews, who was one of the fundraisers for the building, went to a St. Joseph bank collector. So our bookkeeper and teller windows and the intricate brass work were bought from that St. Joseph bank collector. I'm not so sure about the marble. I think that possibly the marble is still the original marble. When the city government was in this building they had the water department here, and they just didn't have the teller cages. That lower part of the bank counter may be the same.