Greenwich Savings Bank
- Architect
- York and Sawyer
- Year
- 1924
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
Built as the headquarters of the Greenwich Savings Bank from 1922 to 1924, this office building at 1352–1362 Broadway occupies a trapezoidal parcel bounded by 36th Street, Sixth Avenue, and Broadway. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by York and Sawyer, one of the era's leading institutional and bank architecture firms. The bank operated from the building until 1981, after which other banks occupied it for two decades.
the building
The banking room. Inside is an elliptical banking room with limestone Corinthian columns, granite walls, a marble floor, and a coffered, domed ceiling with a large skylight. The bronze tellers' screens carry sculptures of Minerva, symbolizing wisdom, and Mercury, representing commerce.
Structure and facade. The exterior wraps around three sides of the building with a base of rusticated stone blocks topped by Corinthian-style colonnades. Structurally, the building is built on a steel frame, allowing the grand columned exterior to be applied as cladding rather than load-bearing masonry.
the style
Beaux-Arts (c. 1880–1930): Gilded Age grandeur: paired giant columns, rough-cut stone bases, rooftop sculpture, and monumental stairs.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
York and Sawyer, the firm behind the design, were among the most prominent bank and institutional architects of the early twentieth century, known for lending civic-scaled classical grandeur to commercial buildings like this one.
significance
The building is a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-01766), designated March 3, 1992, and is listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the New York State Register of Historic Places.
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