District Council 37 Union Health Center (New York City, New York)

 medical clinic, Neoclassical (architecture), interesting place, 1926_construction

3-story Neo-Classical clinic built in 1926 as a bank building. Designed by Merkle & Elberth for the Irving Savings Bank, it is clad in Indiana limestone above a grey granite base. It has a temple-fronted facade with am Ionic columned entrance porch, corner pavilions, and a full entablature topped by a secondary entablature and a gabled parapet. Ornament is restricted to simple moldings and to two large carved medallions depicting bald eagles. Bronze grilles screen the window at the first floor.

The bank occupied the Neo-classical structure until 1970, when it was converted to stores and offices. District Council 37 acquired the building in 1981 and made further interior alterations to be adaptively reused as medical offices for NYC's public employees who are part of the District Council 37 union.

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