Staten Island Savings Bank is a tall single-story structure filling the triangular plot across Water Street from Tappen Park and Edgewater Village Hall.
According to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, “The bank is a fine example of Beaux Arts classicism. It presents two well-defined facades replete with classical symmetry, recognizable Renaissance motifs such as the rusticated wall and arched windows framed within pilasters, and ideal proportions. More importantly, the subtle insertion of the circular colonnaded portico between the acutely angled facades, thus creating the main entrance, is a masterful means of turning an otherwise difficult acute angle into a positive element. A precedent for this treatment had been established by Sir John Soane in his design for the Bank of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century which may be the source for Aldrich’s design.”
Staten Island Savings Bank Vital Statistics
- Location: 81 Water Street at Beach Street
- Year completed: 1925
- Architect: Delano & Aldrich
- Floors: 1
- Style: neo-Classical
- New York City Landmark: 2006
Staten Island Savings Bank Recommended Reading
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report
