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The Old Stone Bank Building (center) housed a popular Rhode Island banking institution founded in Providence in 1819 as a mutual savings bank that was called Providence Institution for Savings

Providence · 1850–1939

The Old Stone Bank Building (center) housed a popular Rhode Island banking institution founded in Providence in 1819 as a mutual savings bank that was called Providence Institution for Savings, Providence, 1850–1939
The Old Stone Bank Building (center) housed a popular Rhode Island banking institution founded in Providence in 1819 as a mutual savings bank that was called Providence Institution for Savings, Providence, 1850–1939. Banks — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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