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Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank (now City Offices) |
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architect |
Raymond F. Almirall |
location |
51 Chambers St. |
date |
circa 1908 - 1912 |
style |
a mix of Beaux-Arts and Art Nouveau |
construction |
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type |
Bank |
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The bank provided financial services for New York City's rising Irish Catholic immigrant population. The bank provided easy transfer of funds between New York and Emigrant's branch offices in Dublin. The building is now used by the New York City. This office building, formerly
known as the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building, is located on
the north side of Chambers Street nearly midway between Broadway and Elk
Street, and extends back to Reade Street. It contains various city
government offices. The City purchased the
building in 1965. It intended to use the site for a new Municipal
Building, which had been designed in the early 1960's but was never
built. Special thanks to www.nyc.gov |
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