Irwin Union Bank and Trust

Infobox_nrhp | name =Irwin Union Bank and Trust
nrhp_type = nhl


caption =
location= Columbus, Indiana
lat_degrees = 39
lat_minutes = 12
lat_seconds = 13
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 85
long_minutes = 55
long_seconds = 17
long_direction = W
locmapin = Indiana
area =
architect= Eero Saarinen,Kevin Roche,John Dinkeloo
architecture= International Modern, Bauhaus
designated= May 16, 2000cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1566735533&ResourceType=Building
title=Irwin Union Bank and Trust|accessdate=2008-07-24|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = May 16, 2000
governing_body =
mpsub=Modernism in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Art in Bartholomew County, 1942-1965 MPS
refnum=00000704cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Irwin Union Bank building in Columbus Indiana, was built in 1954. It was designated a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service in 2001 because of its architecture.

The building consists of a one-story bank structure adjacent to a three-story office annex. A portion of the office annex was built along with the banking hall in 1954. The remaining, much larger portion, designed by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates, was built in 1973.

Eero Saarinen designed the bank building with its glazed hall to be set off against the blank background of its three-story brick annex. Two steel and glass vestibule connectors lead from the north side of this structure to the annex.

The building was designed to distance the Irwin Union Bank from traditional banking architecture, which mostly echoed imposing, neoclassical style buildings of brick or stone. Tellers were behind iron bars and removed from their customers. Saarinen worked to develop a building that would welcome customers rather than intimidate them.

References

External links

* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/samples/in/irwinunion.pdf Application for National Historic Landmark status]
* [https://www.irwinunion.com/iub/about_us/irwin_history.jsp Irwin Union Bank History]
* Link to National Register of Historic Places - http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IN/Bartholomew/state.html