{"nrhp_refnum":"97001245","name":"Youghiogheny Bank of Pennslyvania","other_names":["Old State Bank"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S. Libety St., S of Washington Diamond","address_restricted":false,"city":"Perryopolis","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":40.08661525700006,"lon":-79.75057397299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-10-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The former Youghiogheny Bank of Pennsylvania is a one-story, front-gabled stone building on Liberty Street, one half block south of the Washington Diamond in Perryopolis Borough, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built circa 1817 and later altered and enlarged in the 1930s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant under Criterion A for commerce as a remnant of the early nineteenth-century banking and speculative growth of Perryopolis. It is described as one of the first formally organized banks in western Pennsylvania and as a tangible link to early commercial history. Its ashlar sandstone construction is presented as a representative example of the period.","narrative":"Built circa 1817 of coursed ashlar sandstone on Liberty Street in Perryopolis, this one-story, front-gabled building is about 25 feet square. It was founded as the Youghiogheny Bank of Pennsylvania, one of the first formally organized banks in western Pennsylvania, during a wave of speculative growth in the trans-Appalachian west. The bank closed in 1819 after the depression of that year. The building was later sold in 1821 to Benjamin Martin and remained in the Martin family until 1928. It housed a school, Methodist services in the 1830s, a store and post office, and other businesses. In 1936 a rear two-story stone addition was built, and the building was converted for use as a doctor's office and residence. It is regarded as a tangible link to early commercial history in Fayette County and as a representative example of stone construction from its period.","period_of_significance":"1817-1819","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The building was used as a museum maintained by the Perryopolis Area Heritage Society.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.548579-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/97001245.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001245/d4fa131c7a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001245/d4fa131c7a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Bank_Perryopolis_PA.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:Old_Bank_Perryopolis_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996912","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youghiogheny_Bank_of_Pennsylvania","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8057749"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/youghiogheny-bank-of-pennslyvania-97001245/"}