Modern Federal · Banks

A view of downtown Rapid City, the principal metropolis in far-western South Dakota, within that state's within that state's portion of the Black Hills range, with a head-on view of the historic Buell Building and its distinctive Moorish onion-shaped dome

Rapid City · 1850–1939

A view of downtown Rapid City, the principal metropolis in far-western South Dakota, within that state's within that state's portion of the Black Hills range, with a head-on view of the historic Buell Building and its distinctive Moorish onion-shaped dome, Rapid City, 1850–1939
A view of downtown Rapid City, the principal metropolis in far-western South Dakota, within that state's within that state's portion of the Black Hills range, with a head-on view of the historic Buell Building and its distinctive Moorish onion-shaped dome, Rapid City, 1850–1939. Banks — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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