Ridgewood Savings Bank, Forest Hills Branch
107-55 Queens Boulevard | Forest Hills | built 1940
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1940
Ridgewood Savings Bank builds its first branch beside a new subway stop
Building this Forest Hills branch in 1939-40 marked the first time the Ridgewood Savings Bank reached beyond its home neighborhood. Forest Hills was set for rapid growth: in 1936 that stretch of Queens Boulevard was widened again and a new subway station opened right next to the bank's site, at Continental Avenue and Queens Boulevard.
- 1940
Halsey, McCormack & Helmer's Modern Classical branch wins a Queens design award
Halsey, McCormack & Helmer, which had also designed the bank's Ridgewood headquarters, drew this branch at Queens Boulevard and 108th Street in the Modern Classical style. In 1940 it took the Queens Chamber of Commerce's yearly building award for excellent design. The bank went on to open branches in Laurelton in 1948 and Hollis in 1961.
“…the firm created a modem classical design which won the annual building award for excel lent design from the Queens Chamber of Commerce in 1940.”
- 2000
The Forest Hills branch is designated a New York City landmark
On May 30, 2000, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Forest Hills branch a city landmark. At the April 25 hearing two speakers from the Historic Districts Council spoke in favor and nobody opposed it. The commission singled out its concave and convex walls, limestone surfaces and large windows on a triangular lot along Queens Boulevard.
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