Old Town Savings Bank
| Old Town Savings Bank | |
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| Site Information | |
| Address | 353 N Gay St |
| Geo-reference | 39°17′39″N 76°36′22″W / 39.2943°N 76.60623°W |
| Building Data | |
| Building Type | Commercial |
| Design | |
| Architect | Frank E. Davis |
| Construction | |
| Completed | 1871 |
The Old Town Savings Bank was designed by Frank E. Davis. In 1871, construction was completed. The building was described in The Baltimore Sun as “a splendid iron-front building, the first of the kind erected east of the Falls.” Originally the “Old Town Savings Institution,” the owners changed their name to the “Old Town Savings Bank" within a year of occupying their new building, which would be occupied by various other banks, and thus known by many names. By 1988, a wholesale distributor of tobacco and confectionery supplies, Cala Bros. Inc., owned the building, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. In 2020, its windows were boarded up, and while it appears the exterior has since been renovated, it has retained an air of abandonment on a block of boarded-up and otherwise dilapidated buildings.
