Manhattan · NYC landmark
Former Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
51 Chambers Street · Manhattan, New York City
An immigrant-founded savings bank with twin-looking upper wings designed to bring daylight into deep office floors.
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NYFE Summary
The bank was founded to protect the savings of new immigrants, especially people arriving from Ireland. It grew on the same site through several successive buildings. The tall replacement combined banking space with offices above.
A deep recess divides the upper front into two wings, bringing daylight farther into the building. Carved eagles, beehives and bees appear near the top. The shape and ornament can be studied from the street without entering the former banking hall.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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