{"nrhp_refnum":"78000448","name":"Union Trust Company Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1351 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.102278987000034,"lon":-72.58907820899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-01-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Beaux Arts bank building with a mezzanine at 1351 Main Street in the commercial center of Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, built in 1907-08 and designed by the Boston firm Peabody and Stearns.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its architecture, its ties to Springfield banking history, and its role in developing the city center. It is described as the finest Beaux Arts structure on Main Street and one of the few known Connecticut Valley works of Peabody and Stearns. It also relates to the nearby Court Square municipal group.","narrative":"Built in 1907-08 at 1351 Main Street in downtown Springfield, the Union Trust Company building is a two-story Beaux Arts bank with a mezzanine level. Boston architects Peabody and Stearns designed it. The facade is limestone on a low Tennessee marble base, dominated by a recessed triumphal arch framed by rusticated piers. Carved panels by John Evans of Boston, showing a reclining woman with a putto, ornament the arch spandrels, and a full Corinthian entablature crowns the roofline. The side and rear walls are yellow brick with limestone detail. The company formed in 1906 from the merger of three banks, one of which began as the Springfield Bank in 1814, the first bank in the area. It merged into the Valley Bank in 1958 and served as corporate headquarters until 1970. The building was recognized for its architecture, its banking associations, and its part in the growth of the city center, and locals have called it a gem of Main Street architecture.","period_of_significance":"1907-08","architect_builder":"Peabody and Stearns","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked unoccupied on the 1977 form; condition listed as good. The only exterior change noted is replacement of the first-floor doors and windows with aluminum sash.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.582089-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7952/63795215/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/78000448.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000448/2196531388-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000448/2196531388-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Trust_Company_Building,_Springfield_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Trust_Company_Building,_Springfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795215","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Trust_Company_Building_(Springfield,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7886366"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/union-trust-company-building-78000448/"}