WCIS Bank

The WCIS Bank is a historic and unusual bank building at 365 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is fashioned out of two separate buildings, each of which has served as a home for the Worcester County Institution for Savings, the county's first chartered savings bank (in 1828). The older part of the building, from c. 1851, is at the corner of Foster and Norwich Street, and was built as a joint venture between the bank's parent, the Worcester Bank, and the Boston and Worcester Railroad Company. It is a granite structure three stories high, decorated in Italianate styling. The WCIS in 1906 moved to a new building at the corner of Main and Foster (365 Main Street), another granite three story building with large Doric columns in the center of its main facade. Needing additional space, the bank repurchased the Foster Street building, and joined the two together in 1953.[2]

WCIS Bank
Location365 Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°15′53″N 71°48′7″W
Built1851
ArchitectWinslow & Bigelow
Architectural styleClassical Revival
MPSWorcester MRA
NRHP reference No.80000606 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 05, 1980

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for WCIS Bank". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-23.


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