Dollar Savings Bank
- Architect
- Isaac H. Hobbs
- Year
- 1868
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Collection
- steel city beaux-arts
Dollar Savings Bank traces to 1855, when Hartford transplant Charles A. Colton opened the Pittsburgh Dollar Savings Institution to give the city's fast-growing working class — millworkers, miners, and immigrants — a place to save for as little as $1. The bank's downtown building dates to 1868, designed by Isaac H. Hobbs in the Beaux-Arts style, and still serves as Dollar Bank's Pennsylvania headquarters today.
the style
The 1868 building rendered a bank built for working-class depositors in the formal, classical vocabulary of the Beaux-Arts style, a hallmark of American institutional architecture in the period.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
The building carries National Register of Historic Places status as both a contributing property and a listed place, and is a Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. The institution it houses has grown from that first $53 day of deposits in 1855 into a regional bank with more than 90 offices across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and Virginia.
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