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Just outside Sherman, Texas are the remains of a small farm and ranching town. When you drive through the downtown area you find a couple of abandoned row buildings. These buildings are a few of the remaining buildings left in town. The building sitting at the corner is the Old Dorchester Bank in Dorchester Texas.
The Old Dorchester Bank in Dorchester, Texas – History
The Dorchester Bank was originally the First State Bank of Dorchester and the building next door was the F. C. L. Sperry Building. At one time it was grocery store. I’m not sure what the other buildings were. Both buildings were designed by local Grayson County Architect John Tulloch who designed many notable buildings in North Texas.
Plans were drawn up by John Tulloch in 1911 and was in operation until the 1930s. The bank was closed in the 1930s when President Franklin D. Roosevelt closed the banks. The Dorchester Bank was one of those rural banks that never reopened. Over the years the bank has been a few things but those other business were never documented or those businesses were lost to history.
According to a previous owner, There are 2 rooms sealed off in the back of the bank only reachable through the windows and the current owner doesn’t want anyone entering the building and is allowing the building to collapse so he can use the property for his business.
From my research there were matching buildings (same brick and white trim patterns) along both sides of the road. But over time those buildings were sold off and eventually torn down.
Sources:
- local source, prefers to be anonymous
- Dorchester History – Image Source
- Dorchester, Texas
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