{"nrhp_refnum":"78002412","name":"Dime Bank Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Wyoming Ave. and Spruce St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scranton","county":"Lackawanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.40851616900005,"lon":-75.66508288099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Dime Bank Building is a masonry-bearing commercial building at the corner of Spruce Street and Wyoming Avenue in downtown Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1890 to 1891 for the Dime Bank and Trust Company, with additions around 1908.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an exquisite example of Richardson-like Romanesque commercial architecture and an important contribution to defining the surrounding urban space. It is described as one of the most prominent pieces of real estate in downtown Scranton. The bank was organized for small depositors, and the building has long housed businesses and offices.","narrative":"Built on the corner of Spruce Street and Wyoming Avenue in Scranton between 1890 and 1891, the Dime Bank Building is a five-story masonry commercial block with a five-story corner turret. The bank was organized in 1890 as a people's banking company and opened on March 30, 1891. Its name reportedly came from the fact that anyone, even a newspaper boy, could open an account with ten cents. The bank merged several times and was saved from failure after the 1929 crash by a 1930 merger with the First National Bank. The facade uses rough, massive masonry, semicircular arched openings, and bay windows, with a massive ornamental cornice. The building is regarded as an exquisite example of Richardson-like Romanesque commercial design and as a strong contribution to the shape of the surrounding urban space. Its ground floor has been altered by later storefronts.","period_of_significance":"1890-91","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Romanesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Since the 1930s the building has been an office building with stores and shops on the ground floor; the upper floors have housed a health club that was still operating at the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.081672-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002412.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002412/c4c326ab81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002412/c4c326ab81-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dime_Bank_2_Scranton_PA.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:Dime_Bank_2_Scranton_PA.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83004215","name":"Lackawanna Avenue Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/lackawanna-avenue-commercial-historic-district-83004215/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998081","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_Bank_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5277204"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lackawanna-county/dime-bank-building-78002412/"}