{"nrhp_refnum":"77001150","name":"National Bank of Coatesville Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"235 E. Lincoln Highway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coatesville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.98370197100007,"lon":-75.82161337799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-09-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story commercial building with bank and office space at Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, built between 1906 and 1908. It was designed by the Philadelphia firm of Watson and Huckel for the National Bank of Coatesville.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a representative example of the early work of Watson and Huckel, showing their use of limestone and buff brick, lion's-head decoration, horizontal emphasis and towers with rounded domes. It is described as a valuable link in the study of the firm's design development.","narrative":"Built between 1906 and 1908 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, the four-story National Bank of Coatesville Building was designed by the Philadelphia firm of Watson and Huckel. It has a steel frame, a reinforced concrete first floor, buff-colored brick walls and Indiana limestone trim, with terra-cotta detailing. Carved lion's heads, fruit and foliage separate the limestone bank level from the brick upper floors, and a clock tower with a rounded dome and illuminated town clock stands at the arcade entrance. The building was constructed to give the bank more space and to produce rental income from offices. Its architecture is regarded as an example of the firm's earlier commercial work, sharing features with their other designs, including New Union Station in Worcester, Massachusetts. The building was altered over time, including a rear addition in 1953 that raised the rear portion to the third story level. It remains in use as an office building.","period_of_significance":"1906-1908","architect_builder":"Watson & Huckel (Frank Rushmore Watson and Samuel Huckel, Jr.)","architectural_style":"Beaux arts","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The building is still used by a variety of companies who have offices in it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.898483-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001150.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001150/54e074b78d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001150/54e074b78d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coatesville_Bank.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coatesville_Bank.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87000667","name":"Coatesville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/coatesville-historic-district-87000667/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995073","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_of_Coatesville_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6970887"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/national-bank-of-coatesville-building-77001150/"}