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Main Entrance Door for Bankers' Trust Company

Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953 · 1922

Main Entrance Door for Bankers' Trust Company
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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