The buried Bowery bank 01

Architectural details from the Dry Dock Bank were unearthed under John's Garage during the construction of a new hotel. The site is on the Bowery at East 3 street

 

Leopold Eidlitz’s Dry Dock Savings Bank (1875), at the southeast corner of Bowery and Third Street, was the most interesting of all the neighborhood banks. Far more like a public building than a commercial enterprise, it was one of the finest buildings of the era. Eidlitz won the commission in competition. Eidlitz’s proposal was a picturesque, Ruskinian Gothic design that surrounded a central hip-roofed pavilion with a movemented composition of towers and porches, each with its own steep crocketed roof.

 

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