Former Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank building

The Emigrant Bank Building is a 1908-1912 built building in New York City. It is up to the Chambers Street and was designed by Raymond F. Almirall.

History

The Emigrant Bank was originally founded in 1850 under the auspices of Bishop John Joseph Hughes and the Irish Emigrant Society, to keep the assets of Irish immigrants. 1908 gave the bank then the construction of the designed in the Beaux- Arts style building in order.

After about four years of construction, the building was completed in 1912 and, combined with an ornate entrance hall with numerous marble used, inter alia skylights, depicting scenes from the mining and agriculture were seen. After the completion of the construction the Emigrant Bank occupied the building and used it then as long headquarters. In the twenties of the last century, the Bank was the largest " savings bank " in the United States.

In 1965, the Emigrant Bank Building was purchased by the City of New York, to replace it by a newly designed administration building. This was ultimately not built and the Emigrant Bank Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 1982. Today, it serves as an office building of city administration.