The Watertown Savings Bank Building in
Watertown, Massachusetts
Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Sq ...
, 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
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of ...
style.
Watertown Savings Bank opened on November 10, 1870,
as the first bank in the City of Watertown.
File:Watertown Savings Bank.jpg, The Galen Street elevation overlooking Watertown Square
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1921 establishments in Massachusetts
Bank buildings in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Watertown, Massachusetts