Main St, 132 Bank Building

2020-02-24 photo of Community Bank at 132 Main St.

132 Main St (Community Bank): Two-story, frontal-gable, stone commercial building with highly intact Colonial Revival(1929) remodeling of Main and Broad St facades. Front façade has full return and four pilasters setting off the center entrance and marking the corners of the building. The pilasters have fairly plain capitals (made of a cast material-easternmost one is broken in 2012 showing that capital is hollow) composed of acanthus leaves. An elliptical glazed fan with soldiered stones forming the arch is centered in the tympanum. Center entrance has a plain pediment and squared casing with paired doors with single oblong glazed panels. First floor fenestration on front and sides of the building uses regularly spaced windows with flat stones soldiered to create slightly flared lintels and six-over-six wood sash with wood panels below. Upper story windows are smaller, also with six-over-six wood sash. Built ca.1820-30; extensively remodeled 1929.

Historic map referencesP: 1856: building mapped without owner name: 1868: Moore and Cooke Store; 1903: 1st National Bank
Historic notes: From 1984 inventory form: Probably built by Captain Daniel Smith, stone mason of several buildings in Morris. For many years, it was a general store and had several successive owners. It was taken over as a bank in 1896 and its façade remodeled in 1929.

Other information about the bank building.
http://ourtownnews.info/morris-ny/bank-building-Falls-and-Yates

http://ourtownnews.info/morris-ny/postcard-34-first-national-bank-building

http://ourtownnews.info/morris-ny/Main-and-Broad-St-early-postcard