Watertown Savings Bank
- Architect
- Richard Clipston Sturgis
- Year
- 1928
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The Watertown Savings Bank went up in 1928, designed by architect Richard Clipston Sturgis in the Renaissance Revival style, a common choice for banks projecting institutional stability and permanence.
the style
The Renaissance Revival bank facade borrows from Italian palazzo precedent, a style widely used for American banks in the 1920s to convey solidity to depositors.
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