{"nrhp_refnum":"71000566","name":"Bank of Washington, West End Branch","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"216 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Beaufort County","state":"NC","lat":35.543487792000064,"lon":-77.05634394699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-02-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A temple-form bank building at 216 West Main Street in Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina, erected soon after 1854 for the Bank of Washington. It has a stuccoed brick front and an Ionic portico.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a fine example of antebellum bank design and one of the few remaining small commercial buildings in North Carolina built in the monumental temple-form idiom. It is also tied to the bank's 1851 incorporation and to prominent founders.","narrative":"This small bank building at 216 West Main Street in Washington, North Carolina, is built in the form of a classical temple. Its south facade has a four-column Ionic portico, rusticated stucco over brick, and small pediments above the entrance and flanking windows. The Bank of Washington was incorporated by the General Assembly in 1851, and in 1854 it acquired part of a lot in the Respess Town section. Its directors then advertised for a banking house with a front gable extended into a four-column portico and brick walls stuccoed to resemble stone. The bank operated until Union troops invaded the town during the Civil War, and it was reorganized in 1893. Later changes include additions on the north gable, bricked-up side windows and a fully remodeled interior. It was listed as a fine example of antebellum bank design and as one of the few small commercial buildings in the state in this monumental temple form.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Temple-form with prostyle tetrastyle Ionic portico","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked as occupied, in good condition and altered; present use is commercial. A later letter says the bank merged with North Carolina National Bank in January 1971.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.653122-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7190/47719003/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/71000566.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000566/15f4ea159a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000566/15f4ea159a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_Washington,_West_End_Branch.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradewinds</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:Bank_of_Washington,_West_End_Branch.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001661","name":"Washington Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/washington-historic-district-79001661/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719003","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Washington,_West_End_Branch","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17985729"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/beaufort-county/bank-of-washington-west-end-branch-71000566/"}