{"nrhp_refnum":"77001187","name":"Northern Saving Fund and Safe Deposit Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"600 Spring Garden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.961209688000054,"lon":-75.14831535199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A massive light grey granite bank building on an important corner site in north Philadelphia, facing Spring Garden Street. It was built in 1872-73 by the firm of Furness and Hewitt.","why_significant":"The building is described as the oldest surviving bank of the group Frank Furness and George Hewitt produced just before the Centennial, and as one of the purest Neo-Grec facades the firm produced. Its commercial facade is treated as a distinctive example of the firm's eclecticism. The nomination also argues that it gives variety to a district it describes as overly redeveloped.","narrative":"Built in 1872-73 by the Philadelphia firm of Furness and Hewitt, the Northern Saving Fund and Safe Deposit Company building is a massive light grey granite structure on a corner site once part of a fashionable north Philadelphia neighborhood. Its principal facade faces Spring Garden Street, where ashlar walls are divided into townhouse-width bays by rusticated piers, while the central section takes the form of a conventional city bank front. The design draws on French Second Empire and Neo-Grec sources, and the building is regarded as one of the purest Neo-Grec facades the firm produced. Later additions were made in 1888 by Frank Watson and in 1903 by George T. Pearson, continuing the original vocabulary in slightly pinker granite. The interior has been altered several times. The building is valued for representing the commercial ambitions of the post-Civil War generation and for its place among the firm's surviving bank works, the oldest of which it is.","period_of_significance":"1872-1873","architect_builder":"Furness and Hewitt","architectural_style":"Neo-Grec","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.296797-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001187.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001187/cdea851b39-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001187/cdea851b39-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Saving_Fund.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Saving_Fund.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997118","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Saving_Fund_and_Safe_Deposit_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15262575"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/northern-saving-fund-and-safe-deposit-company-77001187/"}