Queens County Savings Bank
75-44 Main Street | Kew Gardens Hills | built 1953
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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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- 1954
Queens County Savings Bank builds a Kew Gardens Hills branch modeled on Independence Hall
Built in 1953-1954 to designs by architect Harold O. Carlson, the Georgian Revival bank at 75-44 Main Street was made to resemble Independence Hall. The brick building is four bays wide, with two-story side-gabled wings flanking a six-stage square tower that has a Palladian window at the second story and an octagonal belfry crowned by a small cupola and spire.
“It was built in 1953-1954 to resemble Independence Hall in the Georgian Revival style.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2005
The Independence Hall look-alike bank joins the National Register of Historic Places
On June 16, 2005, the former Queens County Savings Bank building at 75-44 Main Street was added to the National Register of Historic Places, following a registration form prepared by Kathleen A. Howe in February of that year. The building, put up as a bank branch in the 1950s, also once housed the Queens Library's Kew Gardens Hills branch.
“It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. ... added = June 16, 2005…”
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
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