Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building

Coordinates: 42°22′22.4″N 71°7′9.0″W / 42.372889°N 71.119167°W / 42.372889; -71.119167
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Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building
MPS
Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.83000826[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 30, 1983
Designated CPJuly 28, 1988

The Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building is an historic bank building at 11–21 Dunster Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Italian Renaissance masonry building was built in 1897 by the Cambridge Savings Bank. It is a four-story building, with a frieze of fleur-de-lis patterning separating the first floor from the upper floors, and a metal cornice below the roof. The building corners are quoined on the upper levels, and there are a pair of matching entrances. It is one of the finest examples of pre–World War I architecture in Harvard Square.[2]

The building was listed on the

Harvard Square Historic District in 1988.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved March 23, 2014.