{"nrhp_refnum":"74000697","name":"First National Bank","other_names":["Broadway Branch","The Bank of Columbus"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1048 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.46466392200006,"lon":-84.99336205099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Italian Renaissance style cast iron bank building at 1048 Broadway in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, erected shortly after 1860 by William H. Young for the Bank of Columbus.","why_significant":"It is described as the largest cast iron building in Georgia. Its c.1860 date shows a level of sophistication equal to contemporary New York cast iron architecture by Daniel Badger and James Bogardus. Its design follows the conservative Venetian Palazzo style of the Haughwout Building in Manhattan.","narrative":"Built shortly after 1860 at 1048 Broadway in Columbus, Georgia, this three-story Italian Renaissance style bank building is the largest cast iron building in the state. William H. Young built it for the Bank of Columbus at a cost of $50,000. Two facades, the 138-foot north side and the 50-foot west side, are cast iron, while the inner and rear walls are brick. Each floor has a repeated round arch window unit with an acanthus leaf key block and fluted Corinthian engaged columns, and the entablature differs on every level. A fire in 1957 gutted the interior, leaving only the iron shell, and the upper windows were changed to plain louvered ones. The building matters because its date shows Georgia could match the cast iron architecture of New York builders such as Badger and Bogardus. After the Bank of Columbus closed in the 1860s, the building passed to an insurance company and later to several banks, and it remains a bank today.","period_of_significance":"1860","architect_builder":"William H. Young (builder)","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance (cast iron)","criteria":[],"status_note":"In good condition and still used as a bank; altered after a 1957 fire gutted the interior, which was completely remodeled.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.441472-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000697.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000697/f7a45c72f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000697/f7a45c72f1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_Columbus,_1048_Broadway,_Columbus_(Muscogee_County,_Georgia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_Columbus,_1048_Broadway,_Columbus_(Muscogee_County,_Georgia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209088","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National_Bank_(Columbus,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16980790"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/first-national-bank-74000697/"}