This tiny brick building was once a bank. It is on the south side of County Road 142, just west of County Road 13, in Foraker, Indiana. I photographed it on a winter evening shortly before sunset.

Foraker isn't really a town; it is just a crossroads in rural Elkhart County with a few houses and a couple of agricultural businesses.

I don't know how old the bank building is, what the bank was called, or when it closed. It is hard to believe that the town could have ever supported a bank.

I have seen and photographed small former bank buildings in several other very small Indiana towns; in the past they must have been much larger and more prosperous places than they are today.

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