View of Main Street from the Fayette National Bank, 1949

ID: 116 ~ Source: https://kyphotoarchive.com/2017/04/24/main-street-downtown-lexington-1949/ ~ Creator: The Lexington Herald-Leader ~ Date: 1949
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View of Main Street from the Fayette National Bank, 1949

This image shows the view of downtown someone would have experienced from atop the First National Bank Building in 1949; 35 years after the building was completed.

This file appears in: The National Bank Building

By Jonathan Chesser
The First National Bank Building, also known as the Fayette National Bank Building, is a historic fifteen-story high-rise located at 167 West Main Street # 1006. It was designed by a prominent New York architectural firm called McKim, Mead, and…