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Christian Murdock, The Gazette
tones from the old First National Bank Building that was demolished in 1955 decorate the landscaping at the new interchange of U.S. Highway 24 and 8th Street in Colorado Springs Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. The First National Bank Building was completed in 1890 at the northwest corner of Tejon Street and Pikes Peak Avenue, current home of The Gazette, and when the building was torn down the stones were used for fill at the location of the Interstate 25 and Cimarron Avenue. Crews discovered the stones when they were excavating during the 1-25/Cimarron interchange reconstruction project.COLORADO SPRINGS — More than 60 years after an ornate building in Colorado was torn down, pieces of the structure have been incorporated into a landscaping project.
The intricately carved slabs were unearthed during recent roadwork in Colorado Springs.
The stones from the First National Bank building had been buried since the 1950s. That’s when the bank building was torn down and the rubble used as road fill.
The Colorado Springs Gazette the bank building stood on a prominent street corner for decades.
Workers have installed 36 of the rediscovered stones in the landscaping near a $115 million highway project. Another stone went to a museum.
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