Metropolitan Savings Bank Building
59 Cooper Square | also 9 East 7th Street, 61 Cooper Square | East Village | built 1867
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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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- 1867
The Metropolitan Savings Bank opens a fireproof marble building
Architect Carl Pfeiffer designed the four-story Second Empire bank building, faced entirely in white marble with a mansard roof, at a cost of $150,000. Built without combustible materials anywhere in its construction, the fireproof building opened on May 30, 1867.
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- 1937
The bank sells the building to a Ukrainian congregation
Metropolitan Savings Bank, which had moved its operations to 754 Broadway in 1935, sold the Cooper Square building to the First Ukrainian Assembly of God in 1937. The congregation has used it continuously as a church ever since, most recently as the First Ukrainian Evangelical Pentecostal Church.
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- 1969
The city designates the former bank building a landmark
New York City designated the former Metropolitan Savings Bank building an individual landmark on November 19, 1969. It was later added to the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places, in 1980 and 1976 respectively.
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- Metropolitan Savings Bank BuildingWikipedia
- 9 East 7th Street; 53-61 Cooper SquareVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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