robertgartner

My Comment: At some point the spire had a stacked wall arrangement built of scalloped terra cotta on either side of the spire. I remember this well because I thought it a disaster when the mall was bulldozed. Why? Because the wall had become a gathering point every evening beginning at about 710 PM for Purple Martins to come to it and the immediate trees behind it to rooost for the evening in preparation for their migration to the south after raising their young here. The Martins would literally fall out of the sky to land there, an onto those trees.