24 Century of Education Wednesday, October 11, 2017

ARCHITECTURE
Continued from page 23
The booming economy of the 1920s led HS&L to con-
struct the building for their Salem site. Western Union and
Ohio Mutual Insurance Company were also tenants. Young &
Merrill, and then Huntington, later acquired the building.
Owsley & Owsley are credited with the design. Some of the
original blue prints have survived.
Farmers National Bank at 340 East State Street
Farmers Bank has been in Salem since 1846. This Neo-
Classical building was built to house them at a later date. It
had a pedimented facade, flanked by flat columns topped with
Ionic capitals, a huge multi-paned arch window that flooded
the first-floor arcade with light, and was faced with limestone.
The narrow rectangular plan was well-suited to a long
bank of teller windows. Farmers vacated in 1946 and remod-
eled and occupied the Trimble Building at the corner of State
and Broadway. Unfortunately, the facade and interior of this
design are no longer apparent, having been lost to significant
renovations. The building is best known as Danny Smith Jew-
elers and today houses Second Blessing.
1930 —First National Bank at 315 East State Street
Another building with several prominent tenants is the
Bank at the corner of East State and Broadway.
See ARCHITECTURE, PAGE 25
The Salem High School building prior to its 1917 opening.

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