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McKinley Bank Building

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ6801906 ↗
Source-derived summary

The William McKinley Federal Savings and Loan was a bank located in Niles, Ohio. It sat on the site of William McKinley's birthplace, which was moved twice before it was destroyed in 1937. The McKinley Birthplace Home and Research Center now occupies the site. The plaque which hung in the bank is now located in the replica birthplace.

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The public source identifies “McKinley Bank Building” as bank. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around McKinley, Bank and Building.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with McKinley, Bank and Building providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “McKinley Bank Building”, the useful work is to connect “bank” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6801906. Authority coordinates are 41.180, -80.766. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937.

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This entry incorporates text from “McKinley Bank Building” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.