Indiana jewel box bank

I visited my eighth and final Louis Sullivan jewel box bank yesterday morning. The Purdue State Bank (now a Chase branch) is in West Lafayette, Indiana. As a graduate of the University of Illinois, I have thoughts about Purdue University and its substandard engineering program, but I will keep those thoughts to myself and focus on the bank. This is the north side of the bank. The thoroughly incompatible stone addition to the building was (according to Wikipedia) built in the 50s, but I must say the original brick and terra cotta portion of the building is in excellent shape. I don’t know when Chase took over, but they’ve done a great job with the old exterior. A fun thing about the bank is that it’s wedge-shaped. Here’s an aerial view I pulled from Apple Maps: The narrow west side of the building used to be the entrance, but it’s now an ATM. You may be surprised to learn that I don’t find this sacrilegious. It’s a reasonable reuse of a part of the building that wouldn’t make sense as…