{"nrhp_refnum":"80002672","name":"Bowery Savings Bank","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"130 Bowery St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.718850694000025,"lon":-73.99509551599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A marble neo-Roman bank building at 130 Bowery in Manhattan, designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1893, on an L-shaped lot with fronts on the Bowery, Grand Street and Elizabeth Street.","why_significant":"It was among the very first neo-Roman buildings to follow the style's popularization at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, and it was McKim, Mead & White's first Roman building after the fair. Its pediment sculpture is by Frederick MacMonnies. The bank is also reputed to be the only New York bank still operating a branch on the site where it first began business.","narrative":"Bowery Savings Bank occupies an L-shaped lot at 130 Bowery in Manhattan, with fronts on the Bowery, Grand Street and Elizabeth Street. McKim, Mead & White designed it in 1893 as a marble building in the neo-Roman style. The Bowery front is a Corinthian temple front framing a triumphal arch, with a pediment group by sculptor Frederick MacMonnies. Inside, marbleized columns create a room within a room, so the irregular trapezoidal space reads as a regular banking hall. The building was among the first neo-Roman works to follow the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition and was the firm's first Roman design after the fair. The bank traces its start to 1835 on this site and had become the country's largest financial institution by assets by 1893. The building remains almost entirely unaltered, with original lamps, bronze stanchions, grilles and floor mosaics. Its architectural and sculptural quality is the basis for its listing.","period_of_significance":"1893","architect_builder":"McKim, Mead & White","architectural_style":"Neo-Roman (Roman style, Beaux-Arts influenced)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, unaltered from its original appearance, on its original site, and occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.958312-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002672.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002672/a1c3a92267-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002672/a1c3a92267-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"ajay_suresh","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowery_Savings_Bank_-_Entrance_(51624125693).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ajay_suresh</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowery_Savings_Bank_-_Entrance_(51624125693).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"13000027","name":"The Bowery Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/the-bowery-historic-district-13000027/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319305","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowery_Savings_Bank_Building_(130_Bowery)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56606042"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/bowery-savings-bank-80002672/"}