Watertown Savings Bank Building
bank building in Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S
The Watertown Savings Bank Building in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, was completed in 1921. The building stands on Main Street (U.S. Route 20), with another entrance at 1 Galen Street, overlooking Watertown Square, and replaced another bank building on the site. Richard Clipston Sturgis was the building's architect, to a design in the Renaissance Revival style.
Watertown Savings Bank opened on November 10, 1870, as the first bank in the City of Watertown.
“Watertown Savings Bank Building” enters the record as bank building in Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Watertown, Savings and Bank can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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