Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building

	Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′22.4″N 71°7′9.0″W / 42.372889°N 71.119167°W
Built	1897
Architect	Blackall, C.H.
Architectural style	Renaissance
Part of	Harvard Square Historic District (ID86003654)
MPS	Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.	83000826
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 30, 1983
Designated CP	July 28, 1988

The Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building is an historic bank building at 11–21 Dunster Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Italian Renaissance masonry building was built in 1897 by the Cambridge Savings Bank. It is a four-story building, with a frieze of fleur-de-lis patterning separating the first floor from the upper floors, and a metal cornice below the roof. The building corners are quoined on the upper levels, and there are a pair of matching entrances. It is one of the finest examples of pre–World War I architecture in Harvard Square.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983,^[1] and included in an expansion of the Harvard Square Historic District in 1988.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "MACRIS inventory record for Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved March 23, 2014.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[MACRIS-2] "MACRIS inventory record for Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved March 23, 2014.

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