{"nrhp_refnum":"85000036","name":"Dime Savings and Trust Company","other_names":["First Valley Bank"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"12 N. 7th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Allentown","county":"Lehigh County","state":"PA","lat":40.60234038100003,"lon":-75.47239867299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-01-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story Art Deco bank and office building on Center Square at Seventh and Hamilton Streets in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, erected in 1925 for the Dime Savings and Trust Company. It is T-shaped in plan with a limestone base and deep red brick office tower.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the best preserved and most original Art Deco structure in Allentown, with an intact monumental banking room. It was designed by the regional firm Tilghman H. Moyer and Company, and is noted as one of the city's principal modern buildings of the 1920s.","narrative":"Built in 1925 at Seventh and Hamilton Streets on Center Square in Allentown, the T-shaped building rises from a limestone base with arcaded openings to a four-story office tower of deep red brick. Its designer was Tilghman H. Moyer and Company, a regional firm known for bank commissions. The tower's continuous brick piers, recessed spandrels and broken-quoined attic reflect New York art deco conventions, while the base draws on Lombard Romanesque detailing. The main banking room, which occupies the full width of the front wing and is spanned by a two-story rear balcony, is described as one of the best preserved monumental banking rooms of its day in the region, with a pair of Art Deco bronze chandeliers. The Dime Savings and Trust Company was founded in 1921 and failed by 1932. The building is regarded as the finest Art Deco design in the city from the 1920s, and as an important early example of the style in Allentown.","period_of_significance":"1925","architect_builder":"Tilghman H. Moyer and Company (architect)","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Exterior and banking room described as intact; upper levels remodelled in the 1960s; the bank failed by 1932 and the building is now the First Valley Bank.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.473877-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85000036.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000036/ab883ff571-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000036/ab883ff571-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011_-_Dime_Savings_Bank_Building.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:2011_-_Dime_Savings_Bank_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994473","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_Savings_and_Trust_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5277213"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-county/dime-savings-and-trust-company-85000036/"}