Chase Bank

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3.5-story bank building originally completed in 1919 for the Sheridan Square branch of the Corn Exchange Bank. Designed by S. Edson Gage, it had an addition on Grove Street completed in 1929. The building has a half-story stone base, with the rest of the facade clad in dark red brick. With its bold arches extending up through two floors, its attractive brick-work and low third floor set above a handsome stone cornice, it provides an interesting study in contrasts. The pitched roof with hip angle at the corner, also expresses its corner location. The ellipitical shape of the second floor window arches set, without stilt, on a horizontal stone band course is an unusual and, not very successful treatment. The front door set on center in the long front facing the square has a boldly projected arched pediment carried on pilasters and large plate glass windows occupy the ground floor portion of the two-story arches.

The building was sold to the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company in the mid-1900s, and later became a Chase Bank location.

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