{"nrhp_refnum":"02001337","name":"Colonial National Bank Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101 E. Crawford St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Connellsville","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":40.01768043200008,"lon":-79.58925611799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":[],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-story bank building at the southwest corner of Pittsburgh Street and Crawford Avenue in the central business district of Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, constructed in 1906.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an excellent small Classical Revival bank on a prominent corner, distinguished by its white marble facades and fluted Doric columns. It is described as the only one of Connellsville's historic bank buildings executed in white marble and as one of the best small Classical Revival banks in the region south of Pittsburgh. It also reflects the coke-driven banking boom of the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Built in 1906 at the southwest corner of Pittsburgh Street and Crawford Avenue in Connellsville, this small bank has two pedimented Classical Revival facades faced in white marble, each with four two-story fluted Doric columns supporting a pediment, and a polished granite base. Each street elevation has a central doorway beneath a tall round-arched window. The building was constructed as a corporate extension of the Title and Trust Company, part of a cluster of banks that grew around Connellsville's coke industry in the early 1900s. Its interior, once a large banking hall with frescoed and marble surfaces and a substantial vault, was largely stripped and remodeled into offices after the Colonial National Bank failed at the start of the Great Depression. The exterior is valued for its design quality and for its prominent corner location, which makes it a focal point of the downtown commercial district. Its marble facades are regarded as unusual among the town's historic banks, and it is compared with a limestone bank in Meyersdale.","period_of_significance":"1906","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The interior was remodeled in the 1930s after the bank failed; the exterior retains most original elements. The first floor is occupied by an insurance agency.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.699011-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02001337.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001337/e15e81871c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001337/e15e81871c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Canadian2006","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonial_National_Bank_Connellsville_Pennsylvania.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian2006</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonial_National_Bank_Connellsville_Pennsylvania.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995125","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_National_Bank_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5148350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/colonial-national-bank-building-02001337/"}