Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building

The Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building is an historic bank building at 11–21 Dunster Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Italian Renaissance masonry building was built in 1897 by the Cambridge Savings Bank. It is a four-story building, with a frieze of fleur-de-lis patterning separating the first floor from the upper floors, and a metal cornice below the roof. The building corners are quoined on the upper levels, and there are a pair of matching entrances. It is one of the finest examples of pre–World War I architecture in Harvard Square.[2]

Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building
Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building is located in Massachusetts
Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building
Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building is located in the United States
Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′22.4″N 71°7′9.0″W / 42.372889°N 71.119167°W / 42.372889; -71.119167
Built1897
ArchitectBlackall, C.H.
Architectural styleRenaissance
Part ofHarvard Square Historic District (ID86003654)
MPSCambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.83000826[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 30, 1983
Designated CPJuly 28, 1988

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983,[1] and included in an expansion of the Harvard Square Historic District in 1988.[2]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved March 23, 2014.