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Last year, around Labor Day, I visited five of Louis Sullivan’s jewel box banks: Farmers and Merchants Union Bank in Columbus, Wisconsin National Farmers’ Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota Henry Adams Building in Algona, Iowa Merchant’s National Bank in Grinnell, Iowa People’s Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids, Iowa These all fit in with a little driving circuit that included visiting my daughter and my younger son. This year, I headed east to pick up the last three. This morning’s bank was the People’s Federal Savings and Loan Association in Sidney, Ohio. Despite what that Wikipedia page says, it’s now operated by F&M Bank, which bought out People’s in 2022. You can sort of tell by the large but tasteful “F&M Bank” lettering on the front (north) façade. F&M could have used a font in which their F was a better match to the F in the original THRIFT lettering, but you can’t expect bank executives to notice things like that. At least they didn’t go with the sans serif font they use in their logo.…