{"nrhp_refnum":"80000606","name":"WCIS Bank","other_names":["Bank Block and Worcester County Institution for Savings"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"365 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.26475425600006,"lon":-71.80143969799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A bank complex at 365 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, made up of an 1851 three-storey Italianate Bank Block at the rear and a 1906 Classical Revival bank building at the front, joined in 1969.","why_significant":"The complex housed the Worcester County Institution for Savings, the city's first savings bank, chartered in 1828. The 1851 Bank Block was illustrated in an 1856 builder's manual as a fine specimen of its kind. The 1906 granite front building by Winslow & Bigelow of Boston shows Greek Revival-inspired Classical design with monumental Doric columns.","narrative":"Two connected buildings at 365 Main Street in Worcester house the Worcester County Institution for Savings, the city's first savings bank, chartered in 1828. The rear section, a three-storey Bank Block, was built in 1851 as a joint venture between the Worcester Bank and the Boston and Worcester Railroad Company, and the bank bought out the railroad's interest in 1852. A builder's manual of 1856 praised it as a fine specimen of its kind. Much of its original ornament was removed in 1969, when the exterior was stuccoed, though the granite store fronts and brackets remain. In 1906 the bank moved into a new granite building on Main Street, with a symmetrical facade, monumental Doric columns and an open bank hall, designed by Winslow & Bigelow of Boston. The bank repurchased the Bank Block in 1953, and the two buildings were joined in 1969. Early presidents included Daniel Waldo and Stephen Salisbury II and III.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Winslow & Bigelow of Boston (1906 building); architect unknown (1851 Bank Block); Norcross Bros., builders (1905-06 notices)","architectural_style":"Italianate (altered) and Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a bank; the Bank Block was stuccoed and altered in 1969 and joined to the front building.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.329417-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7928/63792891/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000606.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000606/53b77d9780-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000606/53b77d9780-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pvmoutside","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WCIS_Bank_Worcester_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pvmoutside</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WCIS_Bank_Worcester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792891","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCIS_Bank","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7947821"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/wcis-bank-80000606/"}