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Horatio Wilson

Posted inBronzeville, Junctures

At the Heart of the Metropolis

by Jon Brozdowski November 13, 2013November 20, 2013

eople come and go, buildings rise and fall, and properties change hands, but a bank must always be present to bear witness. In 1922, the South Side Trust and Savings Bank was built on the corner of 47th and Cottage Grove in the classical style. For years people walked between the two-story-tall Indiana limestone pillars […]

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