Bowery Savings Bank
- Architect
- York and Sawyer
- Year
- 1834
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
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The Bowery Savings Bank Building at 130 Bowery is a Beaux-Arts former bank, now an event venue, built for the Bowery Savings Bank from 1893 to 1895 and designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. It occupies an L-shaped site bounded by Bowery, Grand Street, and Elizabeth Street in Lower Manhattan. Since 2002 it has operated as the event venue Capitale.
the building
Bowery entrance as temple front. The main entrance, on the relatively narrow Bowery elevation, passes through a triumphal arch designed to resemble a Corinthian temple front.
Sculpted exterior. The facade rises from a granite water table at the basement to Indiana limestone above, with Corinthian columns and sculpted pediments by Frederic MacMonnies.
Secondary facades. The Grand Street and Elizabeth Street elevations carry Corinthian pilasters, with a secondary entrance portico on Grand Street.
the style
White's Beaux-Arts design borrows the vocabulary of a Corinthian temple — columns, pediments, and a triumphal-arch entrance — to give a savings bank the gravitas of a civic monument on the Bowery.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Stanford White, of the firm McKim, Mead & White, designed the Bowery Savings Bank Building, completed in 1895.
significance
The building's facade and interior are New York City designated landmarks (LP-00184 and LP-02518), and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, designated 4/19/1966. It has operated as the event venue Capitale since 2002.
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