{"nrhp_refnum":"80003403","name":"McKeesport National Bank","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5th and Sinclair Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKeesport","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.35101054300003,"lon":-79.86193337999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five and one half story bank building at the southeast corner of Fifth and Sinclair Streets in redeveloped downtown McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It has a dormered hipped roof, narrow Pompeiian brick walls and a marble-faced banking room.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the work of the Pittsburgh and Boston firm Longfellow, Alden and Harlow and is a transitional design combining H. H. Richardson's medievalism with Classical Italian Renaissance detailing. It also holds an original steel vault from the McKeesport Safe Deposit Company, one of two of its kind still in existence. It is described as the architectural focal point of the downtown redevelopment area.","narrative":"Built between 1889 and 1891 at the corner of Fifth and Sinclair Streets in McKeesport, this five-and-a-half-story bank has narrow Pompeiian brick walls, rusticated ashlar quoins and a dormered hipped roof. It was designed by the Pittsburgh and Boston firm Longfellow, Alden and Harlow, though the extent of their involvement in the final design is not fully documented. Daniel Stratton held the construction contract, and the building was modified in 1889 to add an additional story. The Sinclair Street facade is its most elaborate, with a rock-faced ashlar ground story, arcaded upper floors and triads of round-arched windows on the fifth story. The main banking room is faced in marble and centers on an original fully automatic steel vault made by the McKeesport Safe Deposit Company. That vault is one of only four the company made and one of two surviving today. The bank was founded in 1887 as the Shoe and Leather Bank, with Andrew Mellon among its first directors and James Evans as its first president. The building is regarded as a transitional work that combines Richardsonian medievalism with Classical detailing.","period_of_significance":"1889-1891","architect_builder":"Longfellow, Alden & Harlow (architects); Daniel Stratton (contractor)","architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque transitional with Classical Italian Renaissance detailing","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Original vault still in use; interior spaces remodeled numerous times since 1910.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.953673-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003403.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003403/e8424984cb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003403/e8424984cb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKeesportNationalBank.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKeesportNationalBank.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996430","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKeesport_National_Bank","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6801757"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/mckeesport-national-bank-80003403/"}