Dollar Bank Fourth Avenue
340 Fourth Avenue
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SAT: 10:00am - 4:00pm
SUN: 10:00am - 4:00pm
YOUR EXPERIENCE
Explore the bank’s historic board room with its ornate, hand-carved Brazilian rosewood trim and molding. Guests are also welcome to tour the basement, with its 1930s Art Deco bank vault and custom-made steel beam supports for the Kohler lions one floor above, in the main hall.
Wheelchair-Accessible Entrance: YES
Wheelchair-Accessible Restrooms: YES
Public Restrooms: YES
Photography Allowed: Limited to areas designated by building host
NOTE: Wheelchair-accessible entrance is located on Smithfield Street.
NOTE: Semi-guided tours available to visitors with smartphones.
ABOUT THIS BUILDING
The oldest surviving bank structure on Fourth Avenue, this Beaux Arts beauty has been continuously owned and operated by Dollar Bank since the building opened. The center portion of the building was designed by Philadelphia architect Isaac H. Hobbs and built in 1870. Its façade contains more than 14,000 tons of brownstone quarried in Portland, Connecticut.
As Dollar Bank grew in the latter 1800s, the building was expanded in 1896 and 1905. The architect for the 1905 project, during which wings and skylights were added, was James T. Steen, a Pittsburgher who had been a Dollar Bank customer since 1868. The banking hall contains original 19th-century marble and stained glass, and the building’s original wooden doors (weighing approx. 1,800 pounds each) are mounted inside the vestibule at the Fourth Avenue entrance. The Heritage Center is a must-see, where you can view handwritten ledgers, vintage banking machines and other artifacts from Dollar Bank’s Archival Collection.
The original lions, carved on site by Max Kohler and his assistant R.C. Morgan, sat outside the building from 1871 until 2009, when they were removed for restoration and afterwards placed inside the main banking hall. Two new lions, exact replicas of Kohler’s original pair and hand-carved from Berkshire brownstone by Nicholas Fairplay and Brian C.E. Baker of Oberlin, Ohio, were installed outside the building in 2013.
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