Savoyard Centre

Infobox_nrhp | name =State Savings Bank
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location= Detroit, Michigan
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 19
lat_seconds = 47
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 83
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 53
long_direction = W
locmapin = Michigan
area =
built =1900
architect= McKim, Mead & White; et al.
architecture= Classical Revival
added = March 19, 1982
governing_body = Private
refnum=82002910cite 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]

Savoyard Centre (1900), also known as State Savings Bank, is an office building at 151 Fort Street in Detroit, Michigan.

History

The State Savings Bank was organized in 1883, and purchased the site at the corner of Fort and Shelby in 1898, by which time it was the largest bank in Detroit. [http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/historic/districts/state_bank.pdf State Savings Bank] from the city of Detroit] They commissioned the prominent architect Stanford White to design the building. White is known for his design of Rosecliff mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, and created a Neo-Classical structure for the bank building.

In 1907, the State Savings Bank merged with the People's Savings Bank to form the People's State Bank, requiring a larger building. In 1914, the bank hired Donaldson and Meier to design an addition to the building. The resulting structure doubled the original size by extending the building rear down to Congress Street. [http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/topten.aspx AIA-Detroit,] "Look Up: Top 10 Downtown Buildings," ModelD, November 8, 2005.] The addition is nearly indistinguishable from the original.

The bank again merged in 1927 to become the Peoples Wayne County Bank, but disappeared in the financial failures of the Great Depression. Afterward, Edsel Ford's Manufacturer's Bank moved into the building. The building was continuously used as a bank until the 1980s, when it was turned into an office supplyshowroom.

The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References and further reading

*Cite book | author=Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher | title= AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture| year=2002 | publisher= Wayne State University Press | id=ISBN 0-8143-3120-3
*Cite book | author=Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A.| title=Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition | year= 1980| publisher= Wayne State University Press| id = ISBN 0-8143-1651-4
*Cite book | author= Sharoff, Robert | title=American City: Detroit Architecture| publisher=Wayne State University Press| year=2005| id=ISBN 0-8143-3270-6
*Cite book | author=Sobocinski, Melanie Grunow | title= Detroit and Rome: building on the past | publisher=Regents of the University of Michigan| year=2005 | id=ISBN 0933691092

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