[flar]

Banks used to build such nice buildings, too bad they stopped. Some of these are still banks, others aren't. All are located in Ontario.


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[BTinSF]

This is the Hibernia Bank in the Tenderloin of San Francisco. It has been empty and derelict as long as I've lived here (27 years now) except for a period of use as a local Police Station:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_cwtF2Oj4ePs/Rtmb93fTX3I/AAAAAAAAAoE/NtqN3PTYqqk/s400/Hibernia.jpg
Source: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp1.blogger.com/_cwtF2Oj4ePs/Rtmb93fTX3I/AAAAAAAAAoE/NtqN3PTYqqk/s400/Hibernia.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sanfranciscootels.blogspot.com/2008/01/san-francisco-hotel-project11.html&h=124&w=93&sz=35&tbnid=1m2a5za_JUIJ:&tbnh=124&tbnw=93&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHibernia%2BBank%2BSF%2Bphoto&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=2

It's such a beautiful building and with a noble past. Here it is after the 1906 earthquake:

http://z.about.com/d/gosanfrancisco/1/7/8/4/Hibernia_Bank-1.jpg
Source: http://gosanfrancisco.about.com/od/1906earthquakeandfire/ig/Photos-of-San-Francisco-1906/Hibernia_Bank-1.htm

[Tom Servo]

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bow down to your master; the master of banks in his dying days, louis sullivan:
National Farmer's Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota / 1908
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/OwatonnaBank.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/LSOwatannaBank1.jpg/416px-LSOwatannaBank1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5c/WestFaceDetail.jpg/750px-WestFaceDetail.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/LSOwatannaBank3.jpg/396px-LSOwatannaBank3.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/LSOwatannaBank2.jpg/408px-LSOwatannaBank2.jpg
Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa / 1912
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/LSPeoplesBankCR1.jpg/800px-LSPeoplesBankCR1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/LSPeoplesBankCR2.jpg/800px-LSPeoplesBankCR2.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/LSPeoplesBankCR3.jpg/391px-LSPeoplesBankCR3.jpg
Henry Adams Building, Algona, Iowa / 1913
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/LSAdamsBuilding7use.jpg/800px-LSAdamsBuilding7use.jpg
Merchants' National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa / 1914
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Home Building Association Company, Newark, Ohio / 1914
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/LSNewarkBank3signature.jpg/800px-LSNewarkBank3signature.jpg
Thrift Building, Sidney, Ohio / 1918
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Sidney-ohio-pfsl.jpg/800px-Sidney-ohio-pfsl.jpg
Farmers and Merchants Bank, Columbus, Wisconsin / 1919
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...and so on






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[Tom Servo]

...and one of the GREATEST banks ever built:
otto wagner's österreichische postsparkasse in vienna / 1906

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Österreichische_Postsparkasse.jpg/800px-Österreichische_Postsparkasse.jpg


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[flar]

http://bp1.blogger.com/_cwtF2Oj4ePs/Rtmb93fTX3I/AAAAAAAAAoE/NtqN3PTYqqk/s400/Hibernia.jpg

It seems quite common for grand old banks to be empty even in healthy cities. There was an amazing empty bank in Toronto that was sold last year, I'm not sure if anything's been done with it.

[texcolo]

The Sullivan banks are startling in their beauty and modernity.

[Via Chicago]

In my hometown of Berwyn theres been a fight for decades about what to do about this building (obviously once beautiful building, but seriously run down and in need of big $$$ to fix up. Its come close to the wrecking ball in the name of strip malls many times. You can see the buildings to the right of it have already been demolished):

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A little history:
http://www.gapersblock.com/detour/berwyns_bank_building_battle/

Thankfully, good sense may have prevailed and it looks like it will (finally!) be restored, and turned into a restaurant. The now vacant areas to the right will become senior housing.
http://www.commercialpropertynews.com/cpn/content_display/regions/midwest/chicago/e3i81c0818309009037187970845f425f83
The architect who oversaw the restoration of the Carson Pirie Scott building in Chicago is being utilized as a consultant, so hopefully we will see good things.

[Via Chicago]

Theres another distinctive bank building on the south side of town, the old Berwyn State Bank. I love Art Deco. Its now used as offices for a hospital across the street

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[sprtsluvr8]

The 1901 former Citizens & Southern Bank building (more recently the Bank of America building) in downtown Atlanta is the current home of the J. Mack Robinson School of Business at Georgia State University.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironchapman/81846506/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironchapman/81846507/


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This 1960's former Trust Company Bank branch sat empty for years, then it was converted to PieBar...Midtown's hottest new restaurant of 2005.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1158/1031582814_612a6d424e.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiki_kiliki/1031582814/


The covered patio sits atop the bank's drive-thru windows.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tandemracer/35745965/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattesque/347538008/


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The 1911 East Atlanta Banking Company building in East Atlanta Village later became the Flatiron Restaurant and Bar.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/1863709495/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/8627487@N06/523512855/



The 1912 Hurt Plaza was originally the Federal Reserve Bank for the Southeast. It now houses one of Atlanta's finest restaurants, City Grill, and the upper floors are Class A office space.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/215660923_737437837e.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/109/299111244_a4d7baf7d7.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddevans/215660923/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/atlmike99/299111244/

[WilliamTheArtist]

First National Bank of Tulsa

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[Viperlord]

Downtown Salt Lake City's Banks


Zions Bank
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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1304/885985895_c5ca63efae.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/187022603_575b24fbaa.jpg?v=0

Salt Lake Commercial And Savings bank
http://i.pbase.com/u8/talshiarr/large/1387063.SLCommSavingsBank.jpg

Continental Bank building-now a hotel Monaco
http://i.pbase.com/u8/talshiarr/large/1387059.HotelMonaco.jpg

Walker Bank Building
http://k53.pbase.com/u10/talshiarr/large/2165100.SLCWalkerCenterSWMay02.jpg

Deseret Bank building
http://k41.pbase.com/u8/talshiarr/large/1387056.DeseretBuilding.jpg

first security bank building-1950's
http://www.utahheritagefoundation.com/uploadedImages/fsbarticleabstract.jpg