{"nrhp_refnum":"83000742","name":"Chapin National Bank Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1675-1677 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.10455275600003,"lon":-72.59443409399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Economics","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story cast stone bank building at 1675-1677 Main Street on the corner of Main and Lyman Streets in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, built in 1917 to designs by the New York firm Mowbray & Uffinger for the Chapin National Bank.","why_significant":"The building is considered important for its link to local banking development and to Chester Chapin, a major local entrepreneur and railroad figure. It is also regarded as a good local example of Neo-Classical design, with a Doric frieze and two-story Doric columns in antis on the Lyman Street facade. The form says it meets criteria A and C.","narrative":"Standing on a prominent corner of Main and Lyman Streets in downtown Springfield, this two-story cast stone building was erected in 1917 as the home of the Chapin National Bank. New York architects Mowbray & Uffinger designed it in a Neo-Classical manner, with a heavy Doric frieze and a row of two-story Doric columns set in antis along the Lyman Street side. The Main Street facade was later covered with modern panels, and an original sketch suggests it once resembled the Lyman Street front, apart from a central entry. The bank traces to 1872, when it began as the Chapin Banking and Trust Company, an arm of Chester W. Chapin's financial interests, and it became a national bank in 1878. Chapin moved from stagecoach and steamboat ventures into railroading, led the Western and the Boston & Albany Railroads, and served in Congress from 1875 to 1877. The building is valued for these banking and personal associations and as a good example of early twentieth-century bank architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Mowbray & Uffinger","architectural_style":"Classical Revivalism (Neo-Classical)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is listed as an amusement park (amusement center); the Main Street facade is covered with modern panels, with facade and store alterations in 1935 and 1968.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.34029-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7903/63790340/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000742.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000742/b3bc1aece9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000742/b3bc1aece9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapin_National_Bank_Building,_Springfield_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</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:Chapin_National_Bank_Building,_Springfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790340","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapin_National_Bank_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5073170"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/chapin-national-bank-building-83000742/"}