National Shoe and Leather Bank - 1894

 

View toward the old National Shoe & Leather Bank building, with busy Chambers Street scene of pushcarts, wagons and horse-drawn trolley. Photo copyrighted by J.S. Johnston in 1894. Source: Library of Congress. The City Hall Park is on the left.

National Shoe & Leather Bank building was designed by Josiah Cleaveland Cady (1837-1919) and it was completed in 1893. In 1921, this 13-story building, at 271 Broadway, was sold to the Chemical Bank. It was demolished and the site is now occupied by Tower 270, completed in 1930.

 

Shoe Leather Bank

 

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National Shoe and Leather Bank - 1894

 

 

 

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