A low row of shops with offices above, built in the 1920s and recently restored, with exuberant classical details.
From the expression on their faces, old Pa Pitt strongly suspects that these lions are up to something.
CommentsAuthor: Father Pitt
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Merchants and Manufacturers National Bank
At some point this building lost something at the top, and indeed the Sanborn map for 1920 shows a building with three floors here. Since the second-floor windows match, it is likely that the top floor matched the third floor of the building to the left. Since Railroad Street does not meet State Street at a right angle, the corner of this building is an obtuse angle.
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I.O.O.F. Block
A lavishly Italianate building on the upper two floors, but the ground floor, occupied by a bank, had a modernistic makeover in the middle twentieth century. The third floor is notably tall, suggesting a lodge hall, and indeed old Pa Pitt confirmed his suspicion by looking at the Sanborn map from 1908, which marks this building as the I.O.O.F (International Order of Odd Fellows) Block, with a bank on the ground floor and a lodge on the third. Later the Odd Fellows moved to a newer lodge on Walnut Street, now South Sharpsville Avenue.
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First Western Bank Building
This impressive Art Deco block, built in about 1930, is all the more impressive for its location, right on the Shenango River at the western end of the State Street bridge.
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