{"nrhp_refnum":"98001445","name":"Poughkeepsie Savings Bank","other_names":["Bank of the Hudson"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"21 Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poughkeepsie","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.70359111100004,"lon":-73.92934201199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Neoclassical bank building at 21 Market Street in downtown Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, built in 1911-12 and designed by the New York City firm Mowbray & Uffinger.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the bank is an impressive example of Neoclassical commercial architecture and the only commercial building in that style in Poughkeepsie. It shows the typical features of an early-20th-century urban bank: a marble temple-like facade with colossal Ionic columns and a monumental banking hall. Its large stained glass window by D'Ascenzo Studios is noted as a feature of particular interest.","narrative":"Built in 1911-12 at 21 Market Street in downtown Poughkeepsie, this one-story bank was designed by the New York firm Mowbray & Uffinger, specialists in bank and office buildings. Its white Pennsylvania marble facade, set on a pale granite base, features fluted Roman Ionic columns, a full pediment with dentils and modillions, and bronze-framed glazing. Inside, a banking room roughly 40 by 60 feet and 40 feet high has red marble wainscoting, Ionic pilasters, a white marble floor and cast bronze teller counters. A large stained glass window by D'Ascenzo Studios shows Henry Hudson's Half Moon on the Hudson River. It is the third bank of the same name on the site, the first savings bank founded in Dutchess County, and the only commercial Neoclassical building in the city. It was built in six months for $85,000, reworked inside in 1931, and extended at the rear around 1957. It continues to operate as a bank branch, now named Bank of the Hudson.","period_of_significance":"1911-31","architect_builder":"Mowbray & Uffinger (architects); Torrington Building Company, Poughkeepsie (construction contractor)","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival (Neoclassical)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a bank branch (Bank of the Hudson); the banking room was remodeled in 1931, the skylight covered and a rear addition built c. 1957.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.540302-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98001445.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001445/5cce3ec9b5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001445/5cce3ec9b5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poughkeepsie_Savings_Bank_building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Poughkeepsie_Savings_Bank_building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312472","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie_Savings_Bank","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7235499"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/poughkeepsie-savings-bank-98001445/"}