Former Irving Savings Bank
115 Chambers Street | Tribeca | built 1926
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1896
Irving Savings Bank, founded in 1851, commissions its Chambers Street building in 1896
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The Irving Savings Bank started in 1851 as a mutual institution with no stockholders, at 96 Warren Street. In 1896 it hired Thomas R. Jackson to design a three-story brick and stone building, just twenty-five feet wide, at 115 Chambers Street. The bank stayed on the block, serving the businesses of the surrounding commercial district.
- 1926
Irving Savings Bank replaces two buildings with a neo-Classical temple front by Merkle & Elberth
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By 1926 the bank's assets had reached twenty-five million dollars and it needed more room. It bought the five-story building next door at No. 117, razed both, and put up a temple-fronted limestone bank on a granite base designed by Merkle & Elberth. Two large carved medallions show bald eagles, and a penthouse held the directors' meeting room.
“By 1926, the bank's total assets had reached twenty-five million dollars and new quarters were needed…”
- 1981
District Council 37 buys the former bank building and converts it to a health center
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The Irving Savings Bank kept its quarters here through 1970, after which the building was turned into stores and offices. In 1981 District Council 37, the municipal employees' union, bought it and altered the interior for medical offices. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described it, lettering on the facade identified it as a District Council 37 Health Center.
“District Council 37 acquired the building in 1981 and made further interior alterations to convert it for use as medical offices.”
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