Stony Island Trust and Savings Bank Building
- Architect
- William Gibbons Uffendell
- Year
- 1923
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Stony Island Trust and Savings Bank Building opened in 1923 for a bank founded in 1917 that had already outgrown its first home. Because Illinois law barred branch banking at the time, standalone neighborhood banks like this one were how outlying Chicago districts got local banking service.
the building
Doric temple front. Architect William Gibbons Uffendell gave the bank a granite exterior with a temple front of four Doric columns and an entablature topped by a parapet.
the style
Uffendell designed the bank in the Neoclassical style, by far the most popular choice for bank buildings of the era, meant to project stability to depositors.
More on Neoclassicalsignificance
The bank failed in 1931 as the Depression disrupted Chicago's banking industry, and the building passed between other banks and long vacancies for the rest of the century. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2013, it is now home to the Stony Island Arts Bank.
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