Branch Banking Company Building (Wilson, North Carolina)

	Branch Banking Company Building
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	(December 2014)
Location	124 Nash St. NE; Wilson, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°43′29″N 77°54′36″W / 35.72472°N 77.91000°W
Built	1903
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Second Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.	78001986
Added to NRHP	August 11, 1978

The Branch Banking Company Building is a historic bank building located in Wilson, North Carolina. It was built by the Branch Banking and Trust Company in 1903, and is a two-story, rectangular, blond brick building in the Classical Revival / Renaissance Revival style. A three bay extension was built in 1934. It features reddish sandstone detailing such as the window surrounds, pediment, columns and capitals; and an overhanging pressed metal cornice.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1] It is located in the Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse Historic District.

The building is now the headquarters of the Arts Council of Wilson.

References edit

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Shoemaker, Mary and Craft, Vicki (n.d.). "Branch Banking and Trust Company Building" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved July 1, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)