Key Bank (Glazier Building)
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- Key Bank, east side.
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- East side detail.
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- North side.
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- North side uppermost order.
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- North side mender pattern.
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- West side.
The Glazier building was designed in 1906 by architect Claire Allen for Frank Glazier, who was a wealthy banker and the State Treasurer in that year. However he was put in jail for for corruption because he misappropriately used used funds to build this building (Wineberg 2014: 121). After the First National Banked moved away in 1929, it held the offices of the Ann Arbor Trust Company from 1930-1975 (Wineberg ibid.). Although designed in the Beaux Arts style (from France) the building still displays some Greek features such as Doric columns and Ionic pilasters, triglyphs and metopes filled with simple medallions in the entablature, and Greek meanders that outline areas between the windows. Since 1975 it has been home to several banks and in 2008 it underwent a $2 million restoration project that restored its historical features (Zemke 2007).
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