Jamaica Savings Bank
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Queens, NY
The Jamaica Savings Bank building at 161-02 Jamaica Avenue was built in 1897–1898 in the Beaux-Arts style for a bank incorporated in 1866 by nineteen local business leaders, including a former New York governor. It stood as the bank's original home before decades of acquisitions folded the institution into larger chains.
the building
The facade. A slender four-story brick building faced in limestone, with a deeply rusticated ground floor whose windows are protected by ornamental metal grilles, framed by double-story pilasters and covered in carved brackets and swags.
the style
The Beaux-Arts treatment turns a small neighborhood bank into a monumental presence on Jamaica Avenue, using rustication, pilasters, and carved ornament to project the institutional solidity depositors were meant to trust.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
Designated a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-02109) and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 2008. The bank itself, incorporated in 1866, was acquired by North Fork Bank in 1999 and later by Capital One in 2008.
nearby
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- J. Kurtz & Sons Store
- Grace Episcopal Church Complex
- First Reformed Church
- King Manor
- Church of the Resurrection