Crenshaw Savings & Loan (1958)
This structure was designed by architect W.A. Sarmiento of the Bank Building & Equipment Corporation of America and has remained relatively unchanged since its construction. It’s design, an inverted trapezoid over a transparent cube, closely resembles the design for The Firestone Bank in Akron, Ohio, also completed in 1958 and some elements of the American Investment Co. of Illinois in Clayton, Missouri (1955). The building recently operated as a Chase Bank branch and is known locally as the Bakewell Building.
