Modern Federal · Banks

Two buildings on Syracuse, New York's, Clinton Square: the 1885 Third National Bank building (also known as the Community Chest Building), designed by Archimedes Russell, left; and the 1875 Syracuse Savings Bank (now Bank of America) Building), designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, then aged 26. Community Chests, which morphed into the "United Way," collected money from businesses and workers and distributed it to community projects

New York (state), New York · 1850–1939

Two buildings on Syracuse, New York's, Clinton Square: the 1885 Third National Bank building (also known as the Community Chest Building), designed by Archimedes Russell, left; and the 1875 Syracuse Savings Bank (now Bank of America) Building), designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, then aged 26. Community Chests, which morphed into the "United Way," collected money from businesses and workers and distributed it to community projects, New York (state), New York, 1850–1939
Two buildings on Syracuse, New York's, Clinton Square: the 1885 Third National Bank building (also known as the Community Chest Building), designed by Archimedes Russell, left; and the 1875 Syracuse Savings Bank (now Bank of America) Building), designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, then aged 26. Community Chests, which morphed into the "United Way," collected money from businesses and workers and distributed it to community projects, New York (state), New York, 1850–1939. Banks — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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