An artist from Cornwall has set up an exhibition which will be displayed inside an old bank vault. Gemma Willdig took on The Old Bank Fowey six months ago, it was previously Fowey's Barclays Bank ...

He really designed the space around this bank vault door. I was told it weighs 10,000 pounds and so it would be very difficult to remove. They said we’d have to reinforce the floors to get it out.

It’s an old bank vault — one of the last remaining relics of a town called Osceola that once thrived with hundreds of residents and then suddenly disappeared nearly a century ago. The town’s ...

But what good is a bank vault with steel, 18-inch thick walls to an Italian restaurant? “We did some homework (and) found out, well, (we should) turn it into a walk-in cooler,” Raymond said.

74-year-old Howard Perr received word that the First State Bank of Ill. Mo.’s old vault needed a home--after it would not fit through the doors of the Scott City Museum.