From the exhibition
Main Entrance Door for Bankers' Trust Company
Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953 · 1922

Christian Francis Rosborg's architectural rendering depicts the main entrance to the Bankers' Trust Company at 501 Fifth Avenue in New York. The design features a monumental door framed by ornamental stone work, crowned with a sculptural clock flanked by winged figures. Above, tall windows with blue glass provide natural light to the banking hall. Symmetrical signage panels identify the building's tenants. A human figure sketched at right provides scale. Rendered in watercolor and ink on paper, the design exemplifies early twentieth-century commercial Beaux-Arts aesthetics, combining classical ornamentation with modern materials and engineering to project stability and prestige.
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