Building type
Savings banks and other financial institutions feature columns, substantial masonry, and formal entrances.
Compare the facades of the former Greenwich Savings Bank, Bowery Bank, and Central Savings Bank. Look for differences in their columns, ornament, and entrances.
20 building histories
Bank · 1900-02
126 Bowery, New York, NY
Completed in 1902, the Bowery Bank of New York is the earliest surviving building by the architectural firm of York & Sawyer in New York City. Located at the northwest corner of the Bowery and Grand Street, it is...
Read the storyBank · 1894
130 Bowery, New York, NY
The World's Columbian Exposition, at Chicago in 1893, brought to this country a new classicism. This Bank of 1894 was one of the first to herald the new style making the most of a difficult L-shaped site. The narrow...
Read the storyBank · 1921-23
110 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
The Bowery Savings Bank Building, designed by the distinguished architectural firm of York & Sawyer, was built in 1921-23, with an addition dating from 1931-33. This imposing structure marked the expansion of the bank...
Read the storyBank · 1926-28
2108 Broadway, New York, NY
The Central Savings Bank, built in 1926-28, was designed by the architectural firm of York & Sawyer in the manner of a grand Italian Renaissance palace.
Read the storyBank · 1922-24
58 Bowery, New York, NY
The monumental Beaux-Arts style building at the southwest corner of the Bowery and Canal Street was designed in 1922 by the respected architect Clarence W. Brazer (1880-1956) for the Citizens Savings Bank and completed...
Read the storyBank · 1836-42 & 1907
55 Wall Street, New York, NY
The First National City Bank is an outstandingly handsome bank building, executed in granite and designed in a truly monumental scale. Occupying an entire city block, this imposing building impresses many observers even...
Read the storyBank · 1927-29
48 Wall Street, New York, NY
This thirty-two-story neo-Georgian skyscraper, with its distinctive setback tower, was erected by the Bank of New York & Trust Company in 1927-29 to the plans of Benjamin Wistar Morris, a prominent designer of business...
Read the storyBank · 1926-27
743 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
The East River Savings Bank, prominently located on the northeast corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 96th Street, was built in 1926-27, and was enlarged in 1931-32. Both phases of the building were designed by the...
Read the storyBank · 1909-12
51 Chambers Street, New York, NY
The 17-story Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank was constructed between 1909 and 1912, and was the third bank built on the site for the same expanding organization. Designed by architect Raymond F. Almirall, who trained...
Read the storyBank · 1898-99
190 Bowery, New York, NY
The former Germania Bank building is an impressive Beaux Arts-style structure prominently located on the northwest corner of the Bowery and Spring Street. Built in 1898-99 to the designs of architect Robert Maynicke, it...
Read the storyBank · 1922-24
1362 Broadway, New York, NY
Haier America acquired the building in 2002.
Read the storyBank · 1953-54
510 5th Avenue, New York, NY
he former Manufacturers Trust Company Building, erected in 1953-54 on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 43rd Street, was one of the first buildings in the United States to introduce International Style...
Read the storyBank · 1896-97
81 8th Avenue, New York, NY
The New York Savings Bank, built in two sections in 1896-97, was designed by RH. Robertson in the Academic Classic style popularized by the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893). It is one of his most...
Read the storyBank · 1907
79 8th Avenue, New York, NY
In the wake of the World's Colmnbian Exposition of 1893 which spawned the Academic Classical Movement throughout America, the neo-classical style virtually became a formula solution for bank design. Constructed in 1907,...
Read the storyBank · 1883-84
81 East 125th Street, New York, NY
The Mount Morris Bank Building, one of the most impressive buildings in Harlem, is prominently situated at the northwest corner of East 125th Street (the major commercial artery of Harlem) and Park Avenue, immediately...
Read the storyBank · 1923
106 Avenue C, New York, NY
The Public National Bank of New York Building in the East Village is a highly unusual American structure displaying the direct influence of the early-twentieth-century modernism of eminent Viennese architect/designer...
Read the storyBank · 1911-12
54 Canal Street, New York, NY
Called “the first strictly high-class tall bank and office building” on the Lower East Side, with a design “equal in every respect [to] the highest grade banking buildings throughout the city,” the S. Jarmulowsky Bank...
Read the storyBank · 1902-03
31 Union Square West, New York, NY
A limestone-faced bank and office tower, the Bank of the Metropolis, a columnar tripartite skyscraper, is a representative example of the major New York architect Bruce Price's neo-Renaissance commercial architecture....
Read the storyBank · 1905-07
20 Union Square East, New York, NY
The Union Square Savings Bank, originally the Institution for the Savings of Merchants' Clerks, was built in 1905-07 to the designs of Henry Bacon in a bold and monumental Academic Classic style popularized by the...
Read the storyBank · 1905
203 East 85th Street, New York, NY
The Yorkville Bank building, an Italian Renaissance Revival structure designed by architect Robert Maynicke and constructed in 1905, served for more than 85 years as a banking center for the Yorkville neighborhood of...
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