{"id":5665,"date":"2013-02-04T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2013-02-04T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T02:02:42","slug":"holyoke-savings-bank-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5665","title":{"rendered":"Holyoke Savings Bank (1928)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holyoke-Gas-Electric.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Holyoke Savings Bank (1928)\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holyoke-Gas-Electric.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holyoke-Gas-Electric-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At 99 Suffolk Street (aka 143 Chestnut Street) in Holyoke is a former bank building constructed beginning in 1928 for the <a href=\"http:\/\/pineconejohnny.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/holyoke-savings-bank-1963.html\">Holyoke Savings Bank<\/a>, which had been founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyokemass.com\/hcv_1879\/hsb.html\">in 1855<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2012\/04\/16\/attractive-new-building-at-suffolk-and-chestnut-streets\/\">An article<\/a> in the <em>Springfield Sunday Union and Republican<\/em> (April 1928) announced that the new building was to be designed by Hutchins &#038; French of Boston and that the construction contract had been awarded to the John F. Griffin Company of Boston.  At some point the bank became the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankencyclopedia.com\/Vanguard-Savings-Bank-17778-Holyoke-Massachusetts.html\">Vanguard Savings Bank<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highbeam.com\/doc\/1P2-8735603.html\">failed in 1992<\/a>, (Fleet Bank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreelibrary.com\/FLEET+BANK+OF+MASSACHUSETTS,+N.A.,+ASSUMES+DEPOSITS+OF+VANGUARD...-a011992710\">assumed Vanguard&#8217;s deposits<\/a>).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hged.com\/html\/our_history.html\">Three years later<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hged.com\/\">Holyoke Gas &#038; Electric Department<\/a> acquired the building from the FDIC.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cbaarchitects.net\/Municipalities\/HolyokeGasElectric\">Interior and exterior historic renovation work<\/a> on the former bank building was completed in 1996.  (I would like to thank Eileen Crosby of the <a href=\"http:\/\/holyokehistory.blogspot.com\/\">Holyoke History Room<\/a> for helping me find information about this building).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 99 Suffolk Street (aka 143 Chestnut Street) in Holyoke is a former bank building constructed beginning in 1928 for the Holyoke Savings Bank, which had been founded in 1855. An article in the Springfield Sunday Union and Republican (April 1928) announced that the new building was to be designed by Hutchins &#038; French of Boston and that the construction contract had been awarded to the John F. Griffin Company of Boston. At some point the bank became the Vanguard Savings Bank, which failed in 1992, (Fleet Bank assumed Vanguard&#8217;s deposits). Three years later, the Holyoke Gas &#038; Electric Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,76,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bank","category-colonial-revival","category-holyoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}