{"id":3749,"date":"2019-08-28T05:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2019-08-28T05:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:22:03","slug":"new-acquisition-terracotta-cornice-lion-boatmans-bank-1915-annex-st-louis-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/new-acquisition-terracotta-cornice-lion-boatmans-bank-1915-annex-st-louis-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"New acquisition: terracotta cornice lion, Boatman&#8217;s bank 1915 annex, St Louis MO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/new-acquisition-terracotta-cornice-lion-boatmans-bank-1915-annex-st-louis-mo\/lion-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3750\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3750 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/lion-e1566968439493-541x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"738\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I purchased one of these cornice lions last week, it came from the 1915 annex of the Boatmans&#8217; bank building, St Louis.<\/p>\n<p>27&#8243;H 11&#8243;W 17&#8243;D, 130#<\/p>\n<p>The building was originally 7 stories high, but in 1920 they added 4 more floors on after removing the roof and cornice, and then either replacing the original cornice or re-installing it all. There were 69 lions that were scaled for a 7 story building, and when it was 11 stories they looked someone &#8220;small&#8221; scaled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3751\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/new-acquisition-terracotta-cornice-lion-boatmans-bank-1915-annex-st-louis-mo\/title-boatmens-bank-building-for-the-monward-realty-company-image-id-ss34149_34149_6525648\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boatman-annex-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/><em><strong>Boatman&#8217;s bank annex ca 1915<\/strong><br \/><strong>Architect: Eames and Young (active 1885-1910s)<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/new-acquisition-terracotta-cornice-lion-boatmans-bank-1915-annex-st-louis-mo\/winkle-terracotta-group\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Winkle-terracotta-group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><em><strong>The terracotta and the lions were made by the Winkle terracotta Company, St Louis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Photo from 1883<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased one of these cornice lions last week, it came from the 1915 annex of the Boatmans&#8217; bank building, St Louis. 27&#8243;H 11&#8243;W 17&#8243;D, 130# The building was originally 7 stories high, but in 1920 they added 4 more floors on after removing the roof and cornice, and then either replacing the original cornice or re-installing it all. There were 69 lions that were scaled for a 7 story building, and when it was 11 stories they looked someone &#8220;small&#8221; scaled. &nbsp; &nbsp; The terracotta and the lions were made by the Winkle terracotta Company, St Louis Photo from 1883 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}